i agree, this was actually one of assigned books from my high school english class that i actually enjoyed reading.
Animal farm is a great book. especially when you se it in the context of the history that was unfolding at the time. These days we don't really get any political 'isms' - just a watered down democracy rammed down our throats
I don't like this book's hidden message. You can understand this book in many different ways but i heard some people say that its actually some kind of critic against communism. But i don't think so, i think there is much more than that. For me the author of this book is against the concept of equality as a whole. Some say that those rebel animals are actually members of working class, and that this way author is against equality of all peoples, so he is trying to say that they aren't capable for independent life without some kind of elite leadership.
It was a very good book with a good message... but I have to say I liked Orwell's 1984 a lot more. That book is brilliant.
Yes it was about communism but not communism as a whole. It was about communist Russia, each of the animals in the story where either taken from different social groups and/or classes and even specific people such as Lenin and Stalin
i guess why i think back on it is because i see it as a book about power struggles in general.the revolutionaries becoming what they had struggled against after they have achieved office.
George Orwell considered himself to be a democratic socialist. He resented the British upper class. He fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republic. He opposed totalitarianism in all of its forms, and thought the Soviet Union represented a distortion of the socialist ideal.
