📚 Animal Farm
Book Title
Animal Farm
(fiction | political satire/allegory)
Author
George Orwell
Review
I have been told that Animal Farm is a must read since as long as I can remember. I never got around to reading it, as I thought the perspective of
fictional animals was ridiculous. Once finished, I now understand why it has been a recommended read - I wish I had read it when I was younger.
This is the first George Orwell book that I have read, and I must say he deserves the praise that he has received to this day. His depiction of politics through a fable story of animals living on a farm is simple yet exceptional. Orwell portrays a totalitarian rule through the pigs, and shows how a revolution can come full circle to end up where it started - just with a different appearance. Through this story, Orwell seems to tell the reader to critically examine the life we live, or risk blending in with a generation of fools.
Note: readers mention that Animal Farm represents the Russian Revolution leading to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union through Stalin.
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