Review of “Animal Farm”
“Animal farm” tells a tragic satire that the oppressed farm animals rebelled to drive out Mr. Jones who was the farmer, and attempted to rule the farm by themselves on an equal basic. However, the animals` aim seems likely to be a sort of utopian communism, the venture failed and the farm was totally controlled by pigs which were the brightest and most idle animals.
This story is a vivid fable that just likes the human beings society. Every character has its antitype. When I read the novel, I felt so familiar with some plots in human `s history. It was interesting how Orwell used the animals to make a statement about politics and society.
I have heard that this novel is famous for its criticism against Soviet Communism. I`m not very familiar with Soviet history. But the animals all called themselves “comrade”, which impressed me very much. And the two leaders Napoleon and Snowball were two representative types of leader. Snowball was a tragic character. He was an active reformer who learned the skills of man including farming, reading, writing and architecture. With these skills, he taught other animals. He hoped every animal could learn more and improve themselves to be more knowledgeable and cultivated. As a leader, he was very responsible for other animals and the farm, and also competent, diligent for his work. Although sometimes his determination seems a little blind and unpractical, but he was really adventurous, just like a doer. However, he was too simple-minded and innocent in the power contest with Napoleon. Nevertheless, a leader demands general traits especially for his EQ level. Snowball was too innocent to defend himself against the sinister Napoleon. I wonder what will happen if Snowball have seen through Napoleon’s trap and is able to get the power. Will he gradually become corrupt and epicurean just like Napoleon? It seems that if Snowball is the leader, the farm will realize their equally happy aim. I don`t know whether he has the greed for power and luxury, but from this story I do realize that the communism is really hard and maybe impossible to achieve.
This novel can be seen as the analysis of the causes of the failure of communism, aiming to prove that human nature and diversity prevent people from being equal and happy ,or at least equally happy. Because in human world, the human nature and diversity decide that there must be someone are not only satisfied with meeting basal needs to exist, and the various people with different features and thoughts won`t make everyone simply equal in the civil rights and individual needs. I have never thought of the possibility of Communism before, but now I begin to suspect that according to the essential of human beings, it`s really a tough mission to achieve the Communism.
I know the story is seen as the satire for Soviet Communism, which made me associate with the Chinese Communism. For my poor political knowledge, I know we are in the Socialism phase, primary for the Communism. Our final target is to realize the Communism and I do wonder when this primary phase is an ending in the future? We are responded unclearly that it will be a very long and tough period in the development process of our country, maybe more than
hundreds years. But how about the later generations? As a matter of fact, I suspect that nobody knows what this primary Socialism will be in the future, it seems that the nation just maintains the actuality and no one cares the direction of Socialism. Even if someone have thought of it, they are not able to consider it clearly. Not everyone can be the giant.
And I also found it different between Soviet and China. In “Animal Farm”, The pigs turned the simple “comrades” to ruthless dictators who managed to walk on legs and carry whips. This kind of totalitarianism ended up with failure, how about Chinese Communism? Totalitarianism and tyranny seems not easy to carry out in China and the phenomenon of “the leader is always right” maybe will never appear again since the institutional revolution have taken place. We select the same way of Communism from Soviet, and what we should do for the next step is a serious social and national problem.
Like a number of girls, i`m not very interested in the politics, but this book made me begin to think of it. Although I`m not able to think clearly and systemically, I have gained a lot from the reading and thinking process.
From Liuchang
《动物农庄》和《一九八四》寓真实于寓言与虚构中，体现政治小说的艺术性，使读者产生惊讶。小说从合情合理的视角，打破常规叙述，使熟悉的历史事件陌生与离奇化，使惯常的事件组合陌生化，使语言表达奇特化，故意不用读者熟知的通用名称，在语言与阅读者之间设置障碍，延长了读者消解过程。以苦涩、嘲讽与愤怒为一体的幽致，追求悲剧意味的喜剧风格，增强象征性与寓意性。运用扭曲的图景，将变形、变态的痛苦寓于深刻悖谬中，以达到讽刺的艺术效果。
Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four combine historical truth with the fable and fiction novels, which show the art of political novels, to make readers feel surprised. With reasonable views, the two novels may not use normal narration to turn the familiar historical events into strange ones, and to change the usual events into strange ones to realize the specialties of language expression. The popular names which are known by readers have not been adopted on purpose in the two novels. There are some understanding barriers in language to make readers spend much more prolonged time in reading. With the style of irony and anger, the novels have demonstrated the comedy style out of tragedy implication to increase the symbolic and intentional effectiveness. With strange views, the irony has been applied to express the peculiar anguish
outstanding novel, Animal Farm, of which many critics have diverse opinions , is undoubtedly one of the most popular novels for the past half century. Even the famous historian, Timothy Garton Ash, a fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford University, once confirmed in public that his writings had been deeply influenced by George Orwell, and regarded Orwell’s book as political writings as well as great works of art. In the spring of 1946, when Animal Farm was firstly published in United States, it had already been translated into nine languages. During the next three years since its publication, this novel had been sold out almost half a million copies worldwide. It is impossible to
overstate the significant role and popularity of Animal Farm in the history of English literature. As far as the present author is concerned, George Orwell’s admirable use of irony in Animal Farm deserves to be studied in detail, so as to shed some light on why this book has such a world-wide appeal over the past sixty years. As a figure of speech in drama and literature, irony is a statement or action whose apparent meaning is underlain by an opposite meaning. It is traditionally categorized into three aspects: verbal; dramatic; situational. In most cases, the uses of irony in Animal Farm belong to the first two. By using the ironic technique, George Orwell is a wonder of the novelists and contributes a lot to the literary world.
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摘要
《动物农庄》，一部以动物故事形式写成的政治讽刺寓言，是乔治?奥维尔的经典著作之一，也为他在英国文学史上赢得了重要地位。在小说中，奥维尔熟练的运用了反讽的修辞手法，揭示了在动物农庄中存在的不平等和独裁，昭示了这个虚拟的所谓理想世界其实不过是人类社会的一个折射。本文试图分析小说中反讽的用法，以期更好的理解在过去的60年中，这本小说何以如此成功并受到全世界读者的欢迎。
本文的第一部分从《动物农庄》的故事场景，人物和小说在文学史中的地位等方面对小说做了总体的介绍和概述。接着，笔者通过比较和分析，认为小说中的反讽可以大致分为两种：言语式反讽和戏剧式反讽。其中，本文通过个案分析的方法，分三个方面，对奥维尔在文中的“七诫”的用法进行了探讨，认为这是言语式反语的经典例子。其后，本文再从三个方面：农庄中的劳作，财富的分配以及动物彼此间的关系，采用比较分析的方法对戏剧式反语进行了考察。最后，本文指出采用反讽主要式基于当时紧张的战后国际社会环境和奥维尔期望揭示政治谎言的目的。
这本小说表达了奥威尔对于社会中不平等现象的愤懑之情，带领读者去思索在人类世界中的有关公平、公正的原则。总之，正是奥维尔熟练的反讽用法使得《动物农庄》成为具有世界影响的政治讽刺小说。
关键字： 言语式反讽刺 戏剧式反讽 平等 动物农庄
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Conclusion
Animal Farm lasts its worldwide popularity for nearly sixty years.
With the end of the struggles against fascism and the victory in 1945, a new conflict between the West and the East began to develop―—the cold war. It is unfortunate Animal Farm started to be taken as an instrument of propaganda of the West campaign. With the assistance of the United States government, it became more popular.
Should it be read during the next fifty years?
Is Animal Farm out of date since the United Soviet Socialist Republics have collapsed and the cold war was end?
The present author holds it firmly that it would not be. This tale about independence and equality won but lost, exposing the evil dictatorship,
continues to remind us that freedom is fragile and precious. This fictitious ideal animal world, created by Orwell, would for all the time warns that the
dispiteous and inhumane struggles of powers in the human world, and the fearful reality that when power corrupts, there are always other forces at work seeking to wield it.
Despite its politic implications about power switches and dispassionate
criticism of the human society, this novel is still a great work. Animal Farm is an allegorical fable, depicting the abuses of power among a group of farm animals who rebel against their human owners and attempt to form an
egalitarian society. As an extremely disciplined writer, Orwell consistently uses language to enhance the development of plot while providing insight into thematic concerns. Written in a pure, subtle, and simplistic style, Animal Farm evokes descriptive imagery and stunning clarity of purpose. Although the novel begins with a relatively light tone, it gradually evolves into a menacing and debilitating void. Coming full circle, the novel ends with a tremendous sense of futility and loss as even the memory of the revolution fades into quiet and passive oblivion. The writing style of Animal Farm is mostly determined by the tense social environment Orwell was in. Moreover, duo to his attempts of combining political purposes of reprehending the social inequality and arts purpose of creating a great work, Orwell makes full use of verbal irony and dramatic irony to clarify his viewpoints .What’s more, the vital success of this novel lies in the profoundly and skillful use of verbal ironies and dramatic ironies in a gentle, dispassionate and logic way.
In a word, Orwell is the first person to make full use of the human-animal relationship for political or social commentary. His distinguished uses of irony make Animal Farm become one of the masterpieces with worldwide appeal for the past sixty decades. Furthermore, it still should be readed with pleasure and profit for the next fifty years, inside and outside the classroom, as a deep impulse for people of the present age to rethink equality and ponder over the latent problems of our own society
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