Book review of Animal Farm

I was deeply reflected and motivated after reading "1984" written by George O'well. Such motivation makes me try to learn everything about such author and this is why  I found "Animal Farm " and read about it. I was to superficial and naive to assume this book will be talking about animal lives when I first saw it. After reading Animal Farm, I was surprised to find the shining talent of the author. I have to recognize that George Orwell’s word is so sharp and his view is so original.  Then I began to realize George will always surprise and educate people by his intellectual imagination and creation on critical writing. Animal Farm is an allegorical novel that reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union.

George's  vision of politic is so keen that it straight leads this book to success. Actually, what describes in the novel happens in the history of the world and acts the same way of our daily life today, doesn't it? The book tells us a fable which is worth thinking over and over again. The animals had strong dissatisfaction with the famers so under the lead of the pigs, though the revolution, they drove the original owner Jones away. Napoleon and Snowball  became the core leadership. They reformed their leading mechanism in order to cash their promise that “All animals are equal!” At first, they indeed had some wonderful days. They lived equally and happily. However, the peaceful days didn’t last long. The contradiction between leaders became sharper and sharper. After a series of politics changes, the animal farm could find their animalism back. The saying all the animals are equal, but some are even more equal. Animal’s life became harder. But as the result of their blind worship of Napoleon, they couldn’t think calmly. All they knew was to work harder. As you can imagine, the ending of animal farm is obvious.  In my opinion, the book’s art value is as significant as its society value. The author criticized the reactionary politics of socialism countries, especially Si Dalin’s dominant in Russia. Though living in a socialism country, I have to recognize that some socialism countries have their disadvantages indeed. Take Russia as a typical example. There’s no doubt that the unequal things were always happened and most of the people had expected Si Dalin a lot in Russia. Maybe in their opinion, Si Dalin’s words were truths, Si Dalin’s thoughts were orders. As a result, they forget their original intention of revolution. No one can deny that it was the sadness of a whole people.  Politic is an abstruse problem for us students to talk. However this book makes the complicated question into a simple fable. It is really a successful and meaningful work!