Brief Summary:
Napoleon
grasps all the power and kicks Snowball out from the farm because she wanted to
help educate the animals but he did not agree with her plans. Slowly, the pigs
take power away from the animals, they stop feeding the animals enough food to
be able to work, and keep all the food and imports for themselves. They even
begin living in the farmhouse again. Due to the fact that Boxer, the strongest
horse, was getting old and wasn’t performing well enough they decided to kill
him which, came as a shock to the rest of the animals. Near
the end of the book the pigs begin to walk on their back legs like humans, they
talk to other men, drink lots of alcohol and whip the animals when they don’t
work. Squealer then goes on to tell the animals of the farm that this is for
the good of the farm. The
animals, at the end of the book, can’t tell the difference between the pigs now
and the farmers that once ruled over all of them.
Opinion:
Throughout the book I began to noticed that more and more that the story had a hidden message which was communism. It may not be that obvious but the way that the animals overthrew their previous leaders and then the pigs unjustly rose to power and started treating the animals like slaves once again makes this represent the communism. Overall I enjoyed reading this book a lot and I recommend it to anyone who has not read it.
The communist parody is hardly very well hidden! What do you think Orwell is trying to show you about it?
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