Thoughts after reading Animal Farm

Based on the story, we can learn that it is an ironic novel which criticized the selfness and voracity of human beings. The author of this novel, George Orwell, wrote this story of animals’ revolution according to his own experience of the Antifascist War in Spain.

Animals on Mr. Jones’ farm could not bear the cruelty their master shown. So they started a war between animals and human beings. They won at last and built policies and regime. There is no doubt that the animals can live a happy life without maltreated. However, the happiness just continued for a shout time. Because of the Napoleon’s tyranny, their happiness was completely destructed.

Their efforts were totally in vain. It is said that the main characters in this story were created to insinuate the real people before the cold war; it is a kind of objection to totalitarianism and utopian dream. However, I considered it as an opposition to the selfness and voracity of human beings.

When it comes to the main characters in this story, we can realize that the animals in animal farm are intelligent and hard-working in some way. Some of them are really good leaders who eventually lead the animals to freedom and independence, such as Older Major, Snowball, and Napoleon. But why animals failed at last? It is also because of those guys who were selfish and greedy. What if Napoleon didn’t change the

policies in the animal farm because of his hedonism and dictatorship? I think the result would be totally different. So selfness and voracity are very harmful to society. It is still true at present.

Because of men’s selfness and voracity, many officials embezzled. They accepted the money earned illegally, helped those guys who violate the law. It’s not only a sign of corruption of our government, but also does a lot of harm to our country and citizens. So we human beings, especially those men who serve the people, should control our desire towards power and money.

第二篇：book report

The Reflections of Animal Farm

When I read this book, my first impression was these words: equality, freedom, dictation, education, and judgmen. I will illustrate them as I provide my own reflection.

First, let me talk about the summary of the book. This book written by George Orwell talks about a farm and animals live in it. Before the revolution, the animals on the farm are abused by the owner of the farm, Mr. Jones, and the old major, by telling a dream of his, fuel the rebellion. And also, he comes up with the principleof the animals, which is called Animalism. The most important one of the principle is that all animals are equal. Soon after old major’s death, the animals begin a revolution, driving the owner, Mr. Jones out of the farm. After the revolution, the name of the farm was changed into animal farm and they decide the pigs to be the leaders who should put up with plans and run the farm properly. At the beginning, the leader who is in power is Snowball, who lead a very successful harvest and thus, winning the animals trust. But unfortunately, another pig, Napoleon, using vicious dogs he trained before to chase Snowball out of the farm. And finally he becomes a dictator. Also, he uses a pig called Squealer to manipulate the language to excuse, justify, and extol all of Napoleon's actions. And in this way, Napoleon finally control all the animal on the farm. Ironically, in the end of the book, Napoleon and other pigs begin walking upright like humans

and learned some behaviors of them, which is against Animalism.

When I finished the book, I talk to myself that this is not only a book deal with the problems of animals, but a mirror of our humans.

First, as humans, we have a strong desire to possess equality and freedom, just like the animals in the book. If there is some who is against these two goals, we will overthrow him. History is really a good example of this. Think of American Independent war, it is because Britain’s cruel ruling that lead to the people’s resist. Let us take this deeper: because it is American people’s nature to pursue freedom and equality, and Britain’s ruling interfered this, so they began their revolution. There is no doubt that we humans are born to love freedom and equality.

The second point I’d like to deal with is that the goal of freedom and equality won’t come out easily and it is always killed by dictation. In the book Napoleon become the dictator who steals the animals’ freedom and equality at last. In human society there was also some examples. In Russia’s history , in the 1920s, people chased freedom and equality under the guidance of Lenin but when Stalin came into power, he gradually became a dictator and people were not in possession of freedom and equality anymore. In brief, dictation is always a barrier for the persuit of freedom and equality.

The last one I want to discuss is that we should take what kind of action in face of dictation. First, we should take a look at what the

animals do in this book. Yes, the animals just believe the superficial words and obey the command of Napoleon. So let me ask you , if it were you, what would you do? Instances are countless. There are people who act like the animals, like the Russians mentioned above. Of course, there are also people who resist and devote their life to overthrow the dictator, like the people in the Glory Revolution, who fight to overthrow the king of Britain. But the most important point I want to deal with is why people do not take action when they are faced with dictation. In order to answer this question, we’d better look into the book for answer. Why animals in the book do not fight against Napoleon when he abuses his power? The most evident reason is that they only have a limited number quantity of language. In this farm, except the pigs, only Benjamin can read. Other animals only know a few letters. When people is lack of knowledge, how can they understand dictation is really harmful to freedom and equality？And, the second reason, I suppose, is that they don’t have their own judgments. Why?

Because, they believe everything Squealer says. They don’t have their own opinions! This is pessimistic. Under the circumstances, they are likely to be controlled by other people. This also goes for the humans. That is, a lack of education is really the soil for dictation.

Then, a more challenging question comes into my mind: how can we avoid dictation and enjoy freedom and equality? According to the

analysis above, I have a few suggestions . First, we should be taught properly. We must have enough knowledge to fully understand what the situation is, only in this way, can we lay our freedom and equality on the basis of it. Then ,we should have our own opinion, we should not believe what other people say or believe. We should use our own mind to analyze if it is really true.

Reading the book is really a process of gaining more, and it is really a pleasure to share what I have learned with others.

Student Name: Wu Yushu

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