Title: Animal Farm: a fairy tale
Author: George Orwell
Pages: 128
Publisher: Plume
Author: George Orwell
Pages: 128
Publisher: Plume
George Orwell delivered the minimalist yet tragic tale of the frequently oppressed animals in Manor Farm.Due to frequent oppression and the hearing of prophecy where animals would rule the farm in due time, staged a coup d’état against Mr. Jones, the human farmer. Subsequently, the animals structured the “Seven Commandments” which promised equality between the animals, changed the name of Manor Farm to Animal Farm, then tried to rule the farm by themselves, on an equal basis or better known as the principle of animalism. They were firstly intent on creating a utopian country, where each animal would work according to his capacity, and would reap the result without the interference of humans. The utopian nation failed, and Animal Farm ultimately became a dictatorship of pigs, who were allegedly the brightest, and most idle of all animals.
"Animal Farm" successfully presents how the mechanism of propaganda and brainwashing works in totalitarian regimes, by depicting examples showing how the pigs could make the other animals believe practically anything. Responsible for the propaganda was Squealer, a pig that "could turn black into white".
Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely-and this is vividly and eloquently proved in Orwell's short novel. "Animal Farm" is a simple fable of great symbolic value, and as Orwell himself explained: "it is the history of a revolution that went wrong".
For this reason, the story ends with a hair-raising warning to all humankind:" The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which".
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