Most of you will be familiar with this book, or at least have seen the movie. It was written in the 1940's but everything being talked about in the book is still so incredibly up to date. The issues are timeless and although the story seems like a children's story, it is so much more than that.
According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"), and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), he wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he had tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".
Animal Farm - George Orwell
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dafne2u
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- Lid geworden op: 15-09-2015 14:39
Read this book
I read this book in my highschool. I didn't liked the book. Maybe because I found it to much political and serious? Don't know why. I know that I absolutely not like politics.
Het leven moet niet vliegen, maar fladderen.
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cibap
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- Lid geworden op: 22-05-2015 13:54
First of all, I think it is great that you know the existance of this book! 8)
Try reading it again in a few years, I remember re-discovering it when I was older. The world in the book made so much more sense to me then. Also because I learned more about communism and war and discrimination. It is very political indeed.
There is a great movie as well. The original movie is a cartoon from 1954, just to emphasize that problems back then are still so much an issue today, not much has changed, unfortunately.. sometimes it seems humans never learn from their mistakes...
Link to the full length cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWGu1xiwj5g
Link to the 1999 'normal' movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lv6rcFzoOk
Try reading it again in a few years, I remember re-discovering it when I was older. The world in the book made so much more sense to me then. Also because I learned more about communism and war and discrimination. It is very political indeed.
There is a great movie as well. The original movie is a cartoon from 1954, just to emphasize that problems back then are still so much an issue today, not much has changed, unfortunately.. sometimes it seems humans never learn from their mistakes...
Link to the full length cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWGu1xiwj5g
Link to the 1999 'normal' movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lv6rcFzoOk