Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
豆瓣的好处,是让你重新认识到,读书是一件快乐的事。这是从心情上讲。 如果从技术上说,豆瓣可以让你知道,还有多少好书你没有读过。 原来我不知道乔治.奥威尔这个人,也不知道《动物庄园》、《1984》。但自从有了豆瓣,发现这个人、这两本书很受欢迎,尤其是在我的友邻之中...
評分 評分动物 老少校(Old Major)——猪,提出了动物主义的思想,影射马克思和列宁 雪球(Snowball)——猪,动物庄园革命的领导者之一,后被驱逐并宣布为革命的敌人,影射托洛茨基 拿破仑(Napoleon)——猪,动物庄园革命的领导者之一,后来成为庄园的领袖,影射斯大林 ...
評分动物 老少校(Old Major)——猪,提出了动物主义的思想,影射马克思和列宁 雪球(Snowball)——猪,动物庄园革命的领导者之一,后被驱逐并宣布为革命的敌人,影射托洛茨基 拿破仑(Napoleon)——猪,动物庄园革命的领导者之一,后来成为庄园的领袖,影射斯大林 ...
評分The outside creatures looked outside from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but really it's impossible to say which was which.
评分沒想到這本書這麼短。還是很喜歡Orwell感情強烈的政治寓言。蘇聯垮瞭,天朝人民依然還在地裏辛勤勞作。
评分入木三分的諷刺。
评分極權主義有幾個特徵: 1.人民生活在愚昧之中,逆來順受 2.社會越來越富裕,統治者越來越富並擁有更多的特權,他們宣揚生活越來越好,事實上人民越來越貧窮,工作越來越苦 3.不遺餘力地抹殺曆史 4.樹立所謂的“反麵人物”靶子,批判、仇恨,清理政敵 5.統治者私下與不同的政權勾結 6.在語言文化上限製民眾的思想 7.對統治者歌功頌德 8.統治者身邊圍繞一群爪牙或親衛隊一樣的存在,必要時恐嚇民眾、趕走政敵
评分奧威爾不從豬的角度去寫,而從其他動物的角度,那正是我們觀察利益驅動社會的角度,但同時並不否定我們也是豬的可能。
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