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Animal Farm and Related Readings |
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Rating: Summary: A Utopian Society - America Take Note Review: I loved this book! This book describes the lost art of dictatorship, and the nature of giving workers an inch, and they'll take a mile! This is how America should deal with unions. The pigs gave the animals freedom, why shouldn't they get a little extra? Listen to the truth, people, respect your betters! God bless the Kennedy clan.
Rating: Summary: an interesting study of human behavior Review: the common perception is that orwell uses farm animals to illustrate the inherent failings of communism/socialism. while that was certainly his aim, he was really describing frailties common in every human society, should they go unchecked. it is an excellent, sad story. he was obligated to use an untraditional ending - anything else would allow people to forget the story all too soon. an excellent warning about the evils of communism, this work reminds the reader of stalin's purges, kruschev sending his political enemies to obscure siberian cement plants, and mao enslaving hundreds of young subjects in his concubine service. the true face of dictatorships "for the people" -ok
Rating: Summary: It's happening all over again Review: This book is a timeless classic. If you look around you, there are many countries with similar situations to the Animal Farm. The book also serves as a warning for our generation not to make the same mistake again.
Rating: Summary: Best! Review: I love this book! Heck, I've read it 3 times and enjoyed every minute of it! This book confronted very serious issues in a very unique way. First, there was the "slavery" of the animals under Jones. With Major's glorious speech and the singings of the Beasts of England it was truly heart touching. Then, the rebellion and battles. Sometimes I really felt like strangling Napoleon like when he expelled Snowball from the farm and changed and ruined everything the animals had worked for. I cried when Boxer died too. If I could write a sequel to this book I would definetly have Napoleon killed. I would entitle it "The Second Rebellion". Poor, poor clover. Good-bye.
Rating: Summary: Rebellion is A Part of Nature Review: George Orwell had full intensions of talking backwards as i call it. He tried to talk about something an implied another. Animal Farm is a very simple book to understand, but the full understanding was in the realization of his intentsions. The Russian Revolution, and the Holocaust are what he was trying to tell us. Someday you'll realize that not everything is handed down to you, or said right to your face in understanding. The point is that Mr. Orwell wanted you to learn while enjoying yourself and not even realizing it until the end. Great Job George!
Rating: Summary: The book was well written. Review: This book was one that was hard to understand the main idea. Our English Teacher had us read it and do a book report on it and just about the whole class was having trouble understanding the point of veiw. Most teens say this is an excellent book due to the fact that it does have to do with politics and the fact that not all people are always treated equally, because of race and color.
Rating: Summary: Fantastic book. Review: Animal farm is a fictional versian of communist Russia with astonishingly close models of the key players of the time, from Marx to stalin. Orwell has created a masterpiece of human nature and rebellion in a suprizingly short book, and has become a classic. Animal Farm is one of the most influential books I have read, and strongly recomend it to anyone!
Rating: Summary: Good, but not definitive Review: George Orwell set out to write a stark criticism of Stalinist Russia. He accomplished that much in a startlingly effective way. But what has he really told us? What actually made Stalinist Russia turn out the way it did? Was the evil in the "animals" that meted out their torture to the rank-and-file, or was it in the IDEAS that spawned these animals? Orwell does not explore these ideas at all, so he never gets to the root of what happened on the farm, or in Soviet Russia, for that matter. He compellingly shows us that tyranny and murder are horrible, but we KNOW that already. He never comes close to the real issue here: what ALLOWED these horrible things to take place, and how do we prevent it from taking place on other "farms"? Orwell, unfortunately, offers his readers no insight there.
Orwell even seems to imply that, had Snowball (or Trotsky) been able to wrest power away from Napoleon (or Stalin), that everything would have been better. He fails to recognize that giving ANYONE that kind of power over individuals necessarily ends in disaster. Any ideology that demands the self immolation of the individual for the "good" of the collective leads to the destruction of the individual, and, eventually even to the destruction of the collective (i.e., all individuals). Unfortunately, with Orwell's book as our only guidance, we are left scratching our heads when looking for the answer to "why", and left helpless against any POTENTIAL dictator who tells us he has the REAL answers.
Read this book for its sensory value, then pick up THE OMINOUS PARALLELS by Leonard Peikoff (non-fiction) for a credible response to the questions Orwell leaves, not only unanswered, but unasked.
Rating: Summary: One of My Favorite Books Review: I have read this book at least 3 times a year since I was in the fourth grade. I'm almost 25 now, and every time I read it I get something different out of it. I have been involved in classroom discussions about this book, and I see the ties that Orwell made to the politics of the day. However, I think that this book is best read as a general commentary on human nature, and how power, especially absolute power, can corrupt those with the best of intentions. I hope that you enjoy this book as much as I have through the years. -- Kim
Rating: Summary: Fairy Tale? I think not!!!!!! Review: I thought 'Animal Farm' was a wonderful book, but then again I am a freshman in high school. When I read it first in about 4th grade, sure it was a great story but then I couldn't comprehend the malignant truth behind it. And there was still the gory stuff that I could not understand. If you ask me, this is not a Fairy Tale but a Scary tale, and I suggest that it not be read to any unsuspecting child under the age of 12.
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