Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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评分今天花一下午的时间,把 乔治.奥威尔 文坛著名政治讽喻小说读完了!短短的100多页的 一个类似童话寓言故事,把一个极权统治发展的历程淋漓尽致的展现我的面前。 其中很多道理原来在脑子里都模模糊糊的想过,读完以后才证实了自己的很多想法!!! 动物庄园这个故事 简单代...
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评分豆瓣的好处,是让你重新认识到,读书是一件快乐的事。这是从心情上讲。 如果从技术上说,豆瓣可以让你知道,还有多少好书你没有读过。 原来我不知道乔治.奥威尔这个人,也不知道《动物庄园》、《1984》。但自从有了豆瓣,发现这个人、这两本书很受欢迎,尤其是在我的友邻之中...
Boxer死的时候我看哭了。
评分句句击中要害!简直可怕!
评分以动物喻人,有趣而一针见血的讽刺。短小精湛,耐人寻味。
评分从来没有这么讨厌过一个动物,那个叫拿破仑的猪你还有脸吗!Boxer马死的时候好伤心????
评分The outside creatures looked outside from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but really it's impossible to say which was which.
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