George Orwell's Animal Farm filled me with emotion by forcing an opinion of a character always, for every character there is a strong opinion. This book symbolizes the Russian Revolution by comparing the country to a farm, the former government to humans and the new government to animals, who take over the farm. The book begins very strongly and absorbs the reader however ending poorly you feel as if there was not a resolution.
"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the
popholes.", the Manor farm is poorly operated by Mr. Jones, his wife, and a few workers. The underfed and overworked animals are prompted to take action by an old pig named Major who has had enough of the owners. Major dies however he leaves behind a song entitled "Beasts of England". Two other pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, take charge of the revolt and they attack the owners quite spontaneously forcing them to flee! The animals rejoice and make a set of rules entitled "The Seven Commandments". Immediately after the revolt two pigs take control; Napoleon and Snowball. These two argued over everything and they held weekly meetings, after every meeting they would sing the song "Beasts of England" which was there "national anthem". Eventually there was a schism between those who chose to follow Napoleon and those who followed Snowball, in the end Snowball would be forced to leave. Napoleon would soon become corrupt and change the rules. Will Napoleon break the coveted rule #1 trading with humans? How far will he take his power?
The characters is what makes the book truly great. From begging to end the reader has a strong opinion of them, you either love them or want hate them. Napoleon, the pig in charge seems to be a
reasonable leader however this changes as he starts to drink, something
totally against the 7 commandments. Then he starts to wear clothes and forces other animals to march. He continues to make changes to the &
Commandments. He change "no animal shall drink" to "no animal shall drink to
access. The
same to the
commandment to no animal shall trade. Will
Napoleon. take his power as far as trading with humans?
Animal Farm is a terrific thoruogh book however at the end you fell as there is more to be done, like there has not been a resolution. If you like making connections and governments read
Animal Farm.