Animal Farm: A portrayal of how high ideas turn in dictatorship

Book/Film Review- 1

Animal Farm 

By- George Orwell 

Amazing Publication, Rs. 125

     ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’ unfolds a great satire on the idealism that how highly principles-based newly independent manor farm turned into a dictatorship of heartless animal elite.

The novel cover (Picture by R. Suresh Bhardwaj)

       The novel starts with the defeat of Mr. Jones, the master of Manor farm, when the oppressed animals take over the farm and the devious and stone-hearted elites among animals take control of the farm.

       Many believe that this novel remained unpublished due to its savage attack on Stalin, ruler of USSR, Britain’s then ally, and got turned down by publisher after publisher—today it’s known to be one of Orwell’s best works, that is why Malcolm Bradbury once said that remains our great satire of the darker face of modern history.

Ideas for Rebelling

       Before getting independence, the novel elaborates never-lasting sets of the line as man is the only creature that consumes without producing. It is the foundation for rebellion. As it always happens, affirmative action takes place in view of dissimilar characteristics of animals that every animal will work according to his capacity.

      The story grows up and ends with all men are enemies and all animals are comrades. Animal comrades start uniting and it is declared that all the habits of men are evil. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

      This is the motivation for all that animals can go beyond their limits. It happened after the carving of seven commandments on the wall that embarked the real face of idealism, and rebellion took place.

 The Seven Commandments

 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

 2. whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

 3. No animal shall wear clothes.

 4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.

 5. No animal shall drink alcohol.

 6. No animal shall kill any other animal.

 7. All animals are equal.

      It reveals the secret of how even all animals believed in the seven commandments and worked like slaves for good fortune, but the elite gets benefits at all.

       Conservation in Novel, “If this rebellion is to happen anyway, what difference does it make, whether we work for it or not?” and the pigs, the cleverest one in animals, had great difficulty.

Novel ends with…

      Animals remember now a day that no creature called any other creature ‘master’. All animals were equal.

      But, at a moment, all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

       He satirically concludes Animal Farm-Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs, the cleverest animal in the farm? The creatures outside looked from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was possible to say, which was which.  

About the Author

George Orwell, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair was born in Motihari, Bihar India on 25th June 1903 and has written many masterpieces- Nineteen Eighty-Four, Homage to Catalonia, Coming up for Air and the greatest classic- Animal Farm.