ShadeStrider

Animal Farm is genuinely an enjoyable book.

Animal Farm actually had me laugh out loud because of how stupid a lot of the animals seemed to be. The hospital had purchased the van from the Horse Slaughterer and they didn't change the logo yet... Yeah right. Though I do feel bad for poor Boxer... He was a hard, respectable worker, and Napoleon betrayed him, just as Stalin betrayed the proletariat and turned the Soviet Union into a dystopia.

You know, the only reason the Animals didn't rebel against Napoleon is because they were too stupid to do so. All Napoleon had to do was eliminate the pigs that opposed him, because the pigs were the cleverest of animals. I guess you could say that Snowball was the main unfortunate victim of this. I don't know what kind of person Leon Trotsky was, but I would happily live in a society where someone like Snowball exists.

It was sort of a "Haha, Russian people are really gullible, and that Gullibility led them into a dictatorship ruled by Stalin" from Orwell to whoever is reading the book.

It's obvious to everyone that Animal Farm was a commentary on Communist Russia. I knew it when I was eight, no teacher needed to say that to me, it was literally in the summary of the book. Orwell made it strikingly obvious to anyone who knows even a bit about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union.

Honestly, I enjoyed this book more than 1984.

Orwell did a really good job of Showing, not telling, with this book.