Animal Farm

Fairy tales are stories made up of rich imagination, fantasy and exaggeration, and can easily resonate with subjective colors and emotional experiences within a certain range. "The revolutionary discourse constructed in Animal Farm is such a fairy tale. Without the fairy tale color on the surface of the story, the "revolution" of the animals itself is also a beautiful fairy tale. As Orwell said at the beginning of the novel, this is just the old major boar - the proposer of the animalist revolution - "had a strange dream the night before." And this dreamlike fairy tale contains many contents that the public deeply agrees with: resentment against tyrannical rule, resentment against tyrannical rule, Resentment against class differences, longing for a bright future, etc. The "revolution" of animals in the novel starts from "Manna Manor", which alludes to society. The main characters in the story are divided into two categories: one is the human being represented by the old owner of the manor, Mr. Jones, and the other is the animals represented by the pig Napoleon, the horse Boxer, and the donkey Benjamin. According to the old major's speech about animalism, humans and animals in the manor ride on the clouds and walk on the mud, forming a simple binary opposition relationship. The reason why animals must "revolution" is because the food they receive from birth can barely survive, and they are forced to work whenever they breathe. On the contrary, although human beings cannot produce, they are the masters of all animals and take as their own all the surplus from the latter's labor. Is this entirely innate? The animals boil down the crux of the problem to one word - "man" and think that as long as they defeat "man". The underlying causes of hunger and overexertion can be eradicated forever. Old Major said in the novel: "As long as we are freed from human domination, the fruits of our labor will all belong to ourselves, and almost overnight, we will become rich and free. "Therefore, in order to live a decent life, it is of course necessary to carry out violent revolution. However, the seemingly righteous revolutionary logic of animals - we are oppressed and exploited, but the rulers are not reaping the harvest, sitting on the harvest, and it is imperative to cut down the wood and kill the enemy - is actually a false discourse, because it ignores an important question, that is, what exactly is "revolution"? When it comes to revolution, especially modern revolution, people's empirical judgments are often: revolution is an act of realizing justice and restoring order. The animalist revolution - the moment it broke out, "before they (the animals) could figure out what was going on, the rebellion had already won a complete victory. "This seemingly simple sentence is the highlight of the novel, because it truly restores the true nature of the animals. For them, whether it is the long speech of the old major, or the "Seven Commandments" motto of the pig leader, or the later eight-character slogan "Four legs are good, two legs are bad", "Animalism" has become a piece of literature. In fact, they never know what "animalism" is; however, the group is willing to accept those beliefs that can make them worship and outline the blueprint for their long-awaited happiness. At the end of the novel, the supreme law "Seven Commandments" changes its name: No animal is allowed to sleep on the bed with sheets; The law prohibits excessive drinking; animals are not allowed to kill other animals without reason; all animals are equal; but some animals are more equal than others. This ending is inextricably related to the mob nature of animals. It can be seen that Orwell's analysis of the formation of totalitarianism through allegorical narratives. The roles they played have been re-evaluated: they seem to be awake, but they fall into another state of blindness and blind madness. They appear to be civilized and separate from madness in the name of civilization, but they do not know that they are madness itself. The so-called "cage" does not come from external forces in the objective world, but from the subjective individual's acquiescence to coercive force. The "politics of truth" revealed by the author challenges and breaks the cognitive paradigm that people are accustomed to, shocking readers in their hearts and giving a strong warning to the world. As a prophetic novel, we should pay attention to the universal significance of this problem. This is the more important deep cultural philosophy of Orwell's "Animal Farm" besides the political satire novel.

Due to the lack of historical knowledge, I can only read a rough summary, but I agree with one point in the article. Hunger and poverty have always been the themes of life. As long as organized society exists, extremism, extreme freedom and extreme control will inevitably appear. Animals are all equal, but some animals are more equal. It seems to be talking about human greed and never being satisfied. Maybe the individual's power is really small. Just like Benjamin, even if he knows so much, there is no way to prevent the death of a boxer, let alone to break away from the obsession of building a windmill. But at least when you can have the ability to think independently, you will know how painful it is and how clear you can be when you are in pain.

The eternal themes in life are hunger, hard work and disappointment - an unchangeable fate. Having independent thoughts can only make you see these pains clearly, and the pain becomes more clear. Therefore, it is better to live a confused and stupid life than to suffer soberly.

After reading it in one sitting, when reading this book while understanding the history of the Soviet Union, you will find that the author has a strong sense of political ridicule. Especially after the seven major disciplines in the book were modified by the so-called leaders and their propagandists, the propaganda methods of the rulers can be said to be very obvious. Forget history, cult of personality.

Indeed, humans should not use modern civilization to restrict the freedom of animals. This book is well written. If animals can overthrow humans, then that is freedom.

The animals outside see people from pigs, pigs from people, and people from pigs, but they can no longer tell the difference between humans and pigs.

In the end, the animals could no longer tell the difference between pigs and humans. Napoleon had forgotten the original pursuit and yearning of the animals. He gradually became selfish, exploitative, cruel, and vicious, as if liberals were most afraid of freedom, and it was always intellectuals who trampled on knowledge. For it, it is the egalitarians who create exploitation.

Politics is a game for the few. Doctrine is the ideal of most people. Politics, doctrine, who is the tool of whom.

It's a good book. I recommend it. I hope you all like it.

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