Animal Farm

  ANIMAL FARM

 Animal Farm was written by George Orwell in 1945 as a critical fable.  It is also considered as a crticism of jakobean Stalin and USSR after Lenin.

   The novel criticise the rising dictator-party ideolgy and jakobean Stalinist thoughts that has come up after proletarian revolution. By reason of the fact that George Orwell has a character which is an opponent of all totalitarian regimes and also a socialist – we can prove this based upon his other books – he directed his criticisms to post-revolution USSR, where the ultimate theorems and antihesis got actualised, before the social-fascist order has come up. This book is really essential to figure out the reality in Russia.

   Animal Farm was censored in England during the World War II. Also Pink Floyd released an album called “Animals” originated from this book.

    There is a farm called Manor Farm in England. Old Major, who is the oldest pig in the farm, teaches a song to other animals which is named “Beasts of England” and gives a start to rebellion. Old Major symbolises Lenin in this book who is the real leader of revolution.

     When Old Major dies, two pigs called Napoleon and Snowball prepare a rebellion and organise all the animals against humans. They depart with the slogan “ All animals are equal”.

    They strive against the humans and manage to prevail the farm. They change the farm’s name from “Manor Farm” to “Animal Farm”.

    Snowball tries to teach the animals reading and writing  but only a few of equines can manage to. Day by day, pigs evolved into vicious leaders that only give directions but don’t help anything.

   Napoleon symbolises Stalin in this book because he becomes the ultimate leader of the animals by controlling them. He starts to sacrifice the animals for more money and conspire with other farms which are ruled by humans. He starts to take the place of humans and act like humans.

    Snowball is the pig who always struggles with Napoleon. Snowball wants to build a windmill for the farm but Napoleon objects this idea. Snowball is the pig who always support animals. Because of that, Napoleon relagates Snowball and declares him as a traitor. After that, Napoleon comes up a brand new idea: building a windmill. All the animals pamper Napoleon and believes him loyally. Snowball symbolises Trotsky in this book who was against the manipulation of Stalin.

   Pigs dominate other animals day after day. They start to wear clothes like humans, they  sleep in beds like humans. Meanwhile, windmill that has been built, suddenly collapses. Napoleon forces all the animals to rebuild it. While the animals are making great efforts on rebuilding, pigs sleep and eat all day.

   Napoleon has become the ultimate leader of the animal farm, and the slogan is changed into:

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”

   Animals maintain their life hopelessly, under the dominance of the pigs that has no difference from humans.

   In my opinion, this book is a great explanation of fascism that always materializes after greatest revolutions and also people that will never reach the utopian world.  George Orwell reluctantly discourages highbrowed people that has lost their heart on “changing the world.” When I read this book, I thought so much about hopeless existentialism and some doctrines of this philosophy. I am not sure whether people are too bad for an utopic world or not like the existentialists say but I think it is hard to change primitive people into advanced people and revolutions are not enough for creating a new system and a world. 


Sources:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_farm
 http://aussgworldpolitics.wordpress.com/opinions/animal-farm-reviewed-by-christopher-hitchens/