Animal Farm

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 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.

The change of the seven Commandmentsoriginal 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 on bed

“No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets“

when pigs and dogs kill the other animals

”No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.”

when pigs began to drink alcohol

“No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.”

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!’“

At last:

”ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUALL 
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE
 EQUAL THAT OTHERS“

The Seven Commandments 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 bed 5. No animal shall drink alcohol 6. No animal shall kill any other animal 7. All animals are equal

Twelve voices shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to 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 has impossible to say which was which.

November 1943-February 1944