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Post by Casey Jones on Mar 26, 2009 20:52:44 GMT
I have, took me a day practicly to read it. But, boy was it good. A nice fable about Russia thought.
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Post by Aidan on Apr 2, 2009 23:06:59 GMT
"Four legs good, two legs bad!"
I remember reading that George Orwell used the pig Snowball to represent Trotsky and his exile from Russia, just as Snowball himself was exiled from Animal Farm. I thought Napoleon had the traits of the perfect villain; cruel, sinister and evil.
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Post by Ajani on Apr 3, 2009 0:52:12 GMT
"Four legs good, two legs bad!" I remember reading that George Orwell used the pig Snowball to represent Trotsky and his exile from Russia, just as Snowball himself was exiled from Animal Farm. I thought Napoleon had the traits of the perfect villain; cruel, sinister and evil. and let's not forget amazingly decptive and cunning..........
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Post by Mafew on Apr 15, 2009 12:42:47 GMT
I loved animal farm, perfect example of dystopian fiction. If you enjoyed that I recommend The Handmaid's Tale, A Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Post by Aidan on Jun 4, 2010 21:03:18 GMT
I hate to admit it, but I saw the original Animal Farm animated movie before I read the book. It was strange to see the two different endings to the story, but I guess Napoleon had to be brought down somehow.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2010 1:40:12 GMT
The funny thing about the orginal animated movie too is that it was partially funded by the CIA. It was still a great movie and book none the less.
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Post by tom628 on Jul 10, 2010 1:50:42 GMT
for anyone whos read both this and 1984, did anyone else notice that the societies created are incredibly similar, if not the same?
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Post by Ajani on Jul 11, 2010 1:16:08 GMT
for anyone whos read both this and 1984, did anyone else notice that the societies created are incredibly similar, if not the same? I never really thought of that, but now that you say it, they are. I think it stems from the fact that Orwell was becoming a bit wary of how leaders in different countries were almost controlling the media. I'm not sure how it was in Europe, but I know that stateside, the US. Gov. placed restrictions on what the media could and couldn't publish (much like the early 2000s under Bush). They both deal with thought control, which is more extreme in 1984 than it is in Animal Farm.
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Post by AwdryEngine on Aug 23, 2010 19:24:59 GMT
I love Orwell. Animal Farm is a great book, but misunderstood. It is taught in schools mainly to show that communism is an idealist system that can never work, but the book was mainly to critize Stalin, not communism. Orwell, himself, was actually a communist. He fought for an anti-Stalinist communist militia in the Spanish Civil War, and he wrote about his experiences in the War in Homage to Cataloina. The more you know.
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Post by Little Engine on Dec 24, 2011 0:38:30 GMT
I've also read Animal Farm and 1984, the latter being my absolute favorite novel. I never knew Orwell was communist, though. Have his other works been printed and released to the public? And if so are they still in circulation?
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Post by ZachThomas2K on Dec 19, 2015 13:13:19 GMT
I read Animal Farm in school and I must say it's a great book. I hope to read more of George Orwell's literature. It's a nice representation from the Russian revolution to a British farm.
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Post by Harperman on Feb 3, 2024 0:52:56 GMT
I've read animal Farm, and watched the animated movie from i believe the 50s. It's a good dystopian novel and a nice warning about how corrupt societys can get with how they can turn their eyes away from possible corruption and even faced with such they'll be like "There's nothing we can do".
However, i take issue with books like these for 1 reason: They don't give us a solution to the problem or any pretense of a way to start solving the problems. It's one thing to present said massive issue to the readers eyes, but it's another if you don't give them a solution after explaining said problem exist.
It's kind of counterintuitive to what these kind of books try to do, the paint a dystopia, but they don't show how to solve said dystopia, and that's why i actually prefer the movie over the book because it tackled solving the problem at the end instead of just essentially telling us "things will never change, there's nothing we can do"
If you don't at least try and give a solution to the problem you present, you just leave your reader unnecessarily depressed, and then they end up just trying to block it out and the lessons it tried to teach.
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Post by Galloping Sausage on Feb 3, 2024 13:32:36 GMT
I first of it when my mom bought a DVD copy of the 1950s in 2006, though I didn't watch it until it was needed a few years later when I had to study it for schooling in 2008. The story was kinda the reason I got interested into hearing the events of the Cold War soon after.
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