THE BOOK IN ITS CONTEXT
First of all, we have to have in mind what it was already happened in the World, I mean, the Russian Revolution when Russia was fighting in the World War I, the raise up of nazism, the Civil War in Spain and finally, the World War II and the new political era, where Europe got divided in two opposing blocks.
Secondly, Orwell, the author, was a democratic socialist that was disagree with certain attitude that Stalin was developing in the Soviet Union, because Orwell believed Stalin was becoming a brutal dictator, who based his power upon a cult of his personality and enforced by a reign of terror.
Taking this into account, and knowing that the novel was published in England in 1945, only 3 months later of the finish of World War II, so we realize that this book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. For that, Orwell used animals to criticize some problems into the Russian socialism, and therefore he narrated the story as a satire of Russian society of his time.
Secondly, Orwell, the author, was a democratic socialist that was disagree with certain attitude that Stalin was developing in the Soviet Union, because Orwell believed Stalin was becoming a brutal dictator, who based his power upon a cult of his personality and enforced by a reign of terror.
Taking this into account, and knowing that the novel was published in England in 1945, only 3 months later of the finish of World War II, so we realize that this book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. For that, Orwell used animals to criticize some problems into the Russian socialism, and therefore he narrated the story as a satire of Russian society of his time.
A BRIEF SUMMARY
As all meetings of a political party or a group, the animals in this story also have their own anthem "Beasts of England", which was singing after every secret meeting. Afterward, they were organised they got throw out the farm. Then they followed the commandments of "Animalism", that readers can think that as the same precepts as communism has. But, nevertheless, there is always some leaders who command the rest and they finish ruling over them. Regarding the begin of this story, all happened after the eldest animal on the farm, a pig, told them his dream of liberty, rebellion. After a time, they had to fight against human beings, but they got the victory in spite of the fact that it started or began the first dissensions among them. Nonetheless, Snowball and Napoleon, they both pigs and they both controlled all these problems. As far as the biggest one was concerned, that was who and how they would work in the field and why pigs were able to drink milk and eat apples without cropped them. Throughout time, the two leaders started to argue every time more between them in every meeting that was assembled. And in the end, Napoleon won this undercover war, where he got expel Snowball out the Animal Farm. After that, he began fearing and threatening all animals in the farm. Moreover, nobody was able to speak against him under death punishment. So if we extrapolated this situation to the reality, we would watch that it is very similar to what it happens in any dictatorship. Even in countries where communism ruled and rules, it occurred and occurs.
On the other hand, Napoleon started having contacts with humans to earn some money to improve the Farm. In addition, he deceived them as many time as he wanted, almost always under threaten. Even Napoleon and his pretorian guards changed the rules every time that he needed and it was always done by their own profit. As well as Napoleon killed all inhabitants of Animal Farm who thought different to him, under the excuse that they were supporting a new rebellion led by Snowball, who was declared a secret agent's Mr. Jones.
And after all those events, animals also had to fight a hard battle against men again, where many of them were killed or wounded by men, even though animals won. In the end, after the death of Boxer, Pigs all entered in treats with their neighbour, and changed by their only opinion the name of Animal Farm to its old name, "Manor Farm", even themselves began to behave like humans whilst the rest of animals were fed worse than in the past, and they could work harder too. But, all animals but pigs didn't memories about the past days, so they accepted that without complaints.
On the other hand, Napoleon started having contacts with humans to earn some money to improve the Farm. In addition, he deceived them as many time as he wanted, almost always under threaten. Even Napoleon and his pretorian guards changed the rules every time that he needed and it was always done by their own profit. As well as Napoleon killed all inhabitants of Animal Farm who thought different to him, under the excuse that they were supporting a new rebellion led by Snowball, who was declared a secret agent's Mr. Jones.
And after all those events, animals also had to fight a hard battle against men again, where many of them were killed or wounded by men, even though animals won. In the end, after the death of Boxer, Pigs all entered in treats with their neighbour, and changed by their only opinion the name of Animal Farm to its old name, "Manor Farm", even themselves began to behave like humans whilst the rest of animals were fed worse than in the past, and they could work harder too. But, all animals but pigs didn't memories about the past days, so they accepted that without complaints.
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COMMENTS ABOUT THE NOVEL IN THE READING CLUB
The majority of comments about the novel were focused on the importance of leadership in a group, where one person ended up over the rest of the people, as a little comunity as a bigger one.
After that, we tried to extrapolate the plot to the current times, so we realized in all ages politican have followed the same way.
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