Review on "Animal Farm" by George Orwell

Animal farm is political satire written by well-known twentieth century novelist George Orwell. It was first published in 1945. It is allegorical and dystopia satire wholly written in personifications where humans were given the name of animals according to their characteristics. It symbolically and metaphorically speaks about the contemporary issues of 1940s. The socialism and Stalinist were major at that time and this novella presents how a revolution that started with the great vision of socialism turned out in to complete opposite of that. The vision for whom one had fight for and the person whom we have supported join hands with enemy and then starts exploit their own people. The novel also teaches that how the Socialism turns out the Dictatorship.  

Old pig named Major had a dream in which he saw that all animal has revolted against humans and freed themselves. In few days he died and now the dream became vision for all animals living in Manor Farm. In a satirical way Orwell has made pigs more intellectual than the rests animal. Two of the pig took leadership of animals in revolt against the master John, they were Snowball and Napoleon, in contemporary time both names were politicians. Orwell has used human names for animals according to their characteristics.

This book talks about the ruthless tendency of mankind to use fellow human being in to the last breath for ones personal dreams and desires. One is so much used that he or she find him or herself of no use and feel better to be died than alive. Here the character Napoleon used all the animals to rule all the animals. Boxer the horse who believes in hard work, worked very hard until his last breadth, believing what Napoleon is doing is right. Soon after he was of no use he was sent to slaughter house. The same type of dirty politics man has always been playing with his or her fellow human being, only ways of doing differs.

At present time man has intercepted the model of Boxer in people's mind. This notion of servitude is deeply seeded that who is being exploited is unaware about it till the death. Or by mistake if you try to point out where one is being exploited, they will abuse you and it may happen they will hit you.

It is a political allegory, it presents how a revolt with a good and noble vision fails at the end of the revolt, when t he power goes in to wrong hands. It is dystopic vision which has started with idea of socialism and with great revolutionary ideas of freedom and happiness. A leader who betrayed the public for his own personal interest joined hand with enemy. At the end of the revolt they got freedom from human being but one more time animals became slaves of their own race, animals ruled by other animals. Thus the quote is appropriate in which Orwell says

"all animals are equal, but some animals are more equals."

Next point novel present is that always weak and uneducated will suffer; they were exploited by his or her fellow being who is more educated and stronger than other.

It also speaks about how the idea of a person and hardworking of that person will be presented by a other as his or her own. And the person who really deserves the credit is forgotten on the way of presentation.

This Book also can be read as self-help book as it teaches how one became a leader. It doesn't speak about good or bad but only presents how one became a leader and then a ruler when there is gullible and naive public.

The last idea which I found in this book is " be careful about your ideas, your ideas also can be stolen. The position you occupied today may replaced by somebody else. The person who was abusing and resisting the ideas for instance Napoleon was against the idea of building wind mill, suddenly started to praise it and claim it as originally one's own. How strange it is ? Isn't?