Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy."If publishers make an effort not to publish books on acertain subjects, it is not for fear of prosecution, but for fear of public opinion. In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face. , and that fact does not seem to have received the opinion it deserves. " - George OrwellA few years ago I read "1984" and was totally fascinated by the originality of the novel written by Orwell. It seemed to me a narrative full of current scenario in a context that does not differ much from what happens in our time. So I decided to continue reading his works and this must be the next one.Animal Farm is a satirical novel. Through an allegory, Orwell tells us about how the Soviet regime corrupts socialism with the arrival of Stalin. Throughout the book we will see how the rebellion evolves and how it gradually ends up becoming a tyrannical dictatorship. The characters are the most successful (based on real), they leave us endearing, eloquent and sometimes even funny moments, all thanks to some exquisite dialogues.It is obvious that this narrative contains a double meaning or a double reading, one of them is about corruption, after the acquisition of power of the pigs they become greedy and totalitarian. What has been most significant to me is the mention of how the pigs (rulers) are changing the commandments of the animals and how they convince them that they were like that from the beginning.Summary of the book:The story goes that Eric Blair, the real name of George Orwell, had a hard time finding a publisher that would dare to publish "Animal Farm." And it was not for less, given that the very particular way in which he satire the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent rise of communism from which the future Soviet Union would emerge was a challenge that more than one editor did not dare to face.Intelligently, Orwell describes us that through the ideas equipped by a pig nicknamed the Old Commander (Karl Marx), the animals expel the farmer Jones (the Tsar) who controlled his farm normally (Russia) and from the expulsion of the humans in the Battle of the Stable (Bolshevik Revolution) and in which the new system of Animalism (Communism) is established that will lead to the animals now controlling the "Solar Farm", renamed "Animal Farm".In charge of all this rebellion will be the pigs Napoleon (Stalin) and Snowball (Trotsky). They will end up subduing the rest of the lower animals and will control them with an iron hand, they will make them work tirelessly, rationing their food and subjecting them to the hardest and most extreme work.Soon, the difference between Napoleon and Snowball will be evident, as it happened with Trotsky and Stalin. You only have to read a little of how Trotsky ended up after the persecution of Stalin to understand a section of the Farm Rebellion. It is surprising that Orwell has excluded the personification of Lenin in the novel, since he was one of the key elements in the Bolshevik revolution.The animals, victorious and happy, control the farm. Every day the emblematic song Beasts of England (The Internationale) is sung, the seven animal commandments are coined, the speech "Four legs yes, two legs no!" and a green flag (communist red) is raised that identifies all the animals in the center of which they paint a hoof and a horn (the hammer and sickle). The (horror) show is served. The tension will rise, the problems will multiply and what we all know will quickly happen: the pigs, guarded by ferocious dogs that were raised apart by Napoleon to guard his wicked orders, will transform the lives of other animals into a true hell.I am pretty sure that Roger Waters was inspired by this book to compose the songs for the album "Animals," by Pink Floyd and where he divides Humanity into three races: pigs as the leaders who have power, dogs, as an army of fierce guardians and sheep as the submissive enslaved people.In conclusion, Animal Farm is a novel that, like all the classics, transcends time, and does so in a wonderful way. It is contradictory to say, but through a simple group of farm animals, George Orwell represents humanity in all its splendor, with the most tragicomic defects that characterise us. And it certainly makes you think about it. It's amazing what can be developed in a few pages and without pretense of greatness - those are the best writers.read more book reviews @ rajulsingh.in
