They adopt Seven Commandments of Animalism, the most important of which is, "All animals are equal." Jones from the farm, renaming it "Animal Farm". The animals revolt and drive the drunken and irresponsible farmer Mr.
When Major dies, two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, assume command and consider it a duty to prepare for the Rebellion. Plot summary: Old Major, the old boar on the Manor Farm, summons the animals on the farm together for a meeting, during which he refers to humans as parasites and teaches the animals a revolutionary song called Beasts of England. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996, and is also included in the Great Books of the Western World selection. Time magazine chose this book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005) it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"), and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), he wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he had tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole". The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union.
This is an allegorical dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945. You may still read our original summary though to the left. Webmaster's Note, - We have been informed by the rights holder that this work is still copyrighted in our territory.
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