Animal Farm

#好书奇遇季 #

I recently read a novel by The British writer George Orwell, Animal Farm.

It tells the story of the animals on the farm who are oppressed by human masters, and under the leadership of pigs, they carry out a "revolution", overthrow the rule of human manor owners, realize the desire of animals to be masters, and change their name to animal farms.

The uprising was successful and the animals were satisfied, and they established an equal animal society and wrote on the wall the seven precepts of animal farm:

1. Anyone who walks on two legs is an enemy

2. Anyone who walks on four legs or has wings is a friend

3. All animals are not allowed to wear clothing

4. All animals are not allowed to sleep in beds

5. All animals are not allowed to drink alcohol

6. All animals shall not kill other animals

7. All animals are equal

Because it was the pigs who led them to overthrow the rule of mankind, the pigs were always called Snowball, and the other was called Napoleon, and they became the leaders of the animals, and the animals obeyed their words. In the days that followed, the animals worked harder to build their own estates. Slowly Snowball and Napoleon split, snowball was declared enemy of the animals, and Napoleon became the sole leader of all the animals in the manor. As its rights grew, so did the special treatment of the pigs, gradually detaching themselves from other animals. Eventually, one by one, the seven precepts were overthrown by the new leader. The decaying, degenerate new ruling class, in pursuit of the maximization of its own interests, constantly oppresses the animal masses, and the masses are blinded by the data and lies made up by the ruling class and its touters. Eventually, the manor was once again reduced to a land where the leaders oppressed the masses, while the animals still thought they were equal and free.

As an allegorical novel, what animal farm really feels as it sits is that the so-called equality and freedom are really limited, relative, and short-lived, and there is no utopian ideal country in the world. With a longing for freedom, the animals rush out of the cages of man, but jump into the trap of the pigs, who are still deceived, enslaved, and ruled. The only difference is that before humans ruled, now animals rule, and that's all.

The most frightening thing about Animal Farm is the sentence that has been tampered with with only one commandment: all animals are equal in one case, but some animals are more equal than others. When "equality" also has a distinction between high and low, the so-called equality is nothing more than a self-deceptive lie, and the so-called freedom has become a complete joke, and the lowly commoners can only struggle silently in the predicament.