Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, bo...
Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
作者简介
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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
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 other animal.
7. All animals are equal (查看原文)
The change of the seven Commandments original one : 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 other animal. 7. All animals are equal simple edition for sheep Four legs good, two legs bad. when pigs began to sleep o...(2回应)
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The change of the seven Commandments
original one :
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 other animal.
7. All animals are equal引自 CHAPTER III
simple edition for sheep
Four legs good, two legs bad.引自 CHAPTER III
when pigs began to sleep on bed
“No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets“引自 CHAPTER III
when pigs and dogs kill the other animals
”No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.”引自 CHAPTER III
when pigs began to drink alcohol
“No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.”引自 CHAPTER III
when pigs began to walk on their hind legs
“Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!’“引自 CHAPTER III
At last:
”ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUALL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAT OTHERS“引自 CHAPTER III
Recently, I have finished my first novel of my holiday this year . Animal Farm, it is this novel that makes a very deeply impression on me, even my emotional thought, not only showing us a great classic by George Orwell, but predication of that ages as well. In terms of the simple contents, conspicuously, it is not enough to make me absorbed in this novel, however, the exquisite plots and the ...(3回应)
2012-07-22 23:189人喜欢
Recently, I have finished my first novel of my holiday this year . Animal Farm, it is this novel that makes a very deeply impression on me, even my emotional thought, not only showing us a great classic by George Orwell, but predication of that ages as well. In terms of the simple contents, conspicuously, it is not enough to make me absorbed in this novel, however, the exquisite plots and the allegory behind it have drawn my attention to the site, in which Napoleon, a pig, can walk with his hind legs, coming to squeal hilariously and speak loudly that, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." In fact, after reading this novel, these words always reverberate in my mind like a pendulem without stopping, which leaves me an imagination of Nazi and former soviet union--- how did they treat their people with a class-structure in society. I have a profound sympathy for Boxer, the horse, he died without a little grudge, but peacefully and wistfully. In essence, Boxer, the victim of that time, who did more work and complained less, had always dreamed of freedom and liberty approaching him one day.
All in all, I am a sentimental person , I'd like to tell you the best way to understand what the author foresee is to learn more history, philosophy, literature, culture ,and finally put yourself in his condition.
The history always repeats itself. What happened in the Animal Farm was the same as what exactly happens in our society now. Great sentences: All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others. Rebellion! I do not know when that Rebellion will come, it might be in a week or in a hundred years, as surely as I see this straw beneath my feet, that sooner or later justice will be do...
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The history always repeats itself. What happened in the Animal Farm was the same as what exactly happens in our society now.
Great sentences:
All animals are equal.
But some animals are more equal than others.
Rebellion! I do not know when that Rebellion will come, it might be in a week or in a hundred years, as surely as I see this straw beneath my feet, that sooner or later justice will be done.
The prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies.
All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.
No animal must ever kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.
Be reduced to a single maxim, namely:”Four legs good, two legs bad.”
You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?
Many of us actually dislike milk and apples.
I dislike them myself.
Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.
War is war.
The only good human being is a dead one.
At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from,
But the problem was soon solved:
They were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately.
Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure!
On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility.
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.
The general feeling by saying:”If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.”
And from then on he adopted the maxim, ”Napoleon is always right,” in addition to his private motto of “I will work harder.”
This work was strictly voluntary,
But any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball.
He was always referred to in formal style as “our Leader, Comrade Napoleon,” and this pigs liked to invent for him such titles as Father of All Animals.
“Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days”;
“Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!”
She was two years past the retiring age,
But in fact no animal had ever actually retired.
Then they saw what Clover had seen.
It was a pig walking on his hind legs.
Four legs good, two legs BETTER!
Hitherto the animals on the farm had had a rather foolish custom of addressing one another as “Comrade.” This was to be suppressed.
What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs?
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.引自第140页
老一辈死的差不多了，剩下的屈指可数。年轻人啥也不懂，只知道干活和继承前人，人们的生活却并没有什么提高。但因为意识形态问题，他们依然有在农场中产生的自我认同感。这让他们不愿反抗，维护了napoleon的统治。同时，他们从未离开过农场，也让他们根本没有眼界的心胸去做这些事。从前的革命者终于也变成了压迫者，挥舞起鞭子，用两条腿走起路来。我还以为squealer把羊群带出去吃草，象征着对于部分人的解放，终于也要走先富带动后附的路线了，没想到他这么做的唯一原因是让只会喊口号的羊把four legs good two legs bad 改成four legs good two legs better。。
无疑napoleon的做法太赤裸裸了，推翻了从前的一切，在农场作威作福。想一个问题，如果他们没有做的这么极端，更多的是走灰色路线呢？动物农场的动物们是否还会奋起反抗？答案其实很难说，这一群连字母表都认不全的人，会反对那些在他们的道德直觉中并没有做错什么的领袖吗？
政治层面的东西不太想说，这本书看完后最大的感触是知识的力量是无穷的，这个社会永远被少数聪明人掌控。而普通大众只能默默无闻或者用自己的劳动力（脑力和体力）换取自己的生活所需。罕有价值和意义可言。作为万物之灵的人类，可以通过学习使自己更加具有见识和思想，我们也许依然无法改变这种专制的局面（因为再聪明的群体，依然可以分出智力和谋略的高下），但是至少我们的思想可以更加自由，我们可以选择做我们喜欢的事情，享受我们想要的生活。这一点上，是和农场中的动物们不同的。
世界上本就不存在绝对自由。
It was very neatly written, and except that ‘friend’ was written ‘freind’ and one of the ‘S’s’ was the wrong way round, the spelling was correct all the way through. Snowball read it aloud for the benefit of the others. All the animals nodded in complete agreement, and the cleverer ones at once began to learn the Commandments by heart. 极具讽刺，暗示了“友人”即将成为“敌人” 以及总有“...
2012-03-10 15:54
It was very neatly written, and except that ‘friend’ was written ‘freind’ and
one of the ‘S’s’ was the wrong way round, the spelling was correct all the way
through. Snowball read it aloud for the benefit of the others. All the animals
nodded in complete agreement, and the cleverer ones at once began to learn the
Commandments by heart.引自 Ⅱ
Some of the animals talked of the duty of loyalty to Mr. Jones, whom they referred to as "Master, " or made elementary remarks such as "Mr. Jones feeds us. If he were gone, we should starve to death." Pinks speak for the red. they could have ruined two of my favorite colors. what kind of the reincarnation it is.
2020-05-29 22:22
Some of the animals talked of the duty of loyalty to Mr. Jones, whom they referred to as "Master, " or made elementary remarks such as "Mr. Jones feeds us. If he were gone, we should starve to death."引自 Chapter 2
Pinks speak for the red. they could have ruined two of my favorite colors. what kind of the reincarnation it is.
Napoleon was now never spoken of simply as Napoleon." He was always referredto in formal style as our Leader, Comrade Napoleon," and this pigs liked to invent forhim such titles as Father of All Animals, Terror of Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold,Ducklings Friend, and the like. In his speeches, Squealer would talk with the tearsolling down his cheeks of Napoleon's wisdom the goodness of his...
2020-04-23 15:43
Napoleon was now never spoken of simply as Napoleon." He was always referredto in formal style as our Leader, Comrade Napoleon," and this pigs liked to invent forhim such titles as Father of All Animals, Terror of Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold,Ducklings Friend, and the like. In his speeches, Squealer would talk with the tearsolling down his cheeks of Napoleon's wisdom the goodness of his heart, and the deep love he bore to all animals everywhere, even and especially the unhappy animals whostill lived in ignorance and slavery on other farms. It had become usual to giveNapoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune.You would often hear one hen remark to another, "Under the guidance of our Leader,Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days"; or two cows, enjoying a drink atthe pool, would exclaim, Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, howexcellent this water tastes!
Instead -she did not know why they had come toainewhen no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere,crimes. There was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. She knew that,even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones,and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings.Whatever happen...
2020-04-23 15:09
Instead -she did not know why they had come toainewhen no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere,crimes. There was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. She knew that,even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones,and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings.Whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders thatwere given to her, and accept the leadership of Napoleon. But still, it was not for thisthat she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. It was not for this that theyhad built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun. Such were her thoughts,though she lacked the words to express them.and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shockáng
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Recently, I have finished my first novel of my holiday this year . Animal Farm, it is this novel that makes a very deeply impression on me, even my emotional thought, not only showing us a great classic by George Orwell, but predication of that ages as well. In terms of the simple contents, conspicuously, it is not enough to make me absorbed in this novel, however, the exquisite plots and the ... (3回应)
The history always repeats itself. What happened in the Animal Farm was the same as what exactly happens in our society now. Great sentences: All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others. Rebellion! I do not know when that Rebellion will come, it might be in a week or in a hundred years, as surely as I see this straw beneath my feet, that sooner or later justice will be do...
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以动物喻人，有趣而一针见血的讽刺。短小精湛，耐人寻味。
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everyone is equal. some pigs are more equal.
9 有用 Bill 2007-08-14
火车上读完的 大家应该都很熟悉了 甚至都已有亲身体会了
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0 有用 pipi 2020-08-04
现当代政治史的缩影。
0 有用 小蚊 2020-08-03
终于读了这本在西方人人读过的书。
0 有用 噢是甘乐酱啊 2020-08-02
这不是现实或荒谬，这只是个fairy-story（笑）
0 有用 onceforall 2020-08-01
语言简单 但是断断续续读了太久 还是更喜欢1984诶