Animal Farm is the story of a group of animals who overthrow their human owner. Will the animals actually have better lives now that the humans are gone?Philip Pullman once said that, "A story will help us make sense of anything." In this case, George Orwell uses Animal Farm as an allegory of Russian history, with certain characters representing famous figures who shaped Russian history, like Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky.This book was part of the monthly Readalongs ...

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS! At first, I thought *Animal Farm* would be told from the animals' perspective, about how they're treated, how they want to be treated, and humanity's cruelty towards them. But, but, but... I'm blown away by how George Orwell critiques political maneuvering and totalitarian rule, using animals to illustrate human behavior. Orwell beautifully depicts how a revolution begins to stop injustice, only to come full circle and end up exactly whe...

The only good pig is a dead pig.Yeah, yeah, everyone claims George Orwell wrote *Animal Farm* about the Russian Revolution, Stalin, and the rise of Communism. Pshttt. Whatever.You know what I think he was really saying? Beware the Other White Meat! Ok, maybe not. Look, I know what you're thinking, That pig looks adorable!, but the next thing you know, that piggy is all grown up and stealing your cookies!And you'll let it steal your cookies because Mr. Pig has convinced you that giving up your...

I'm sure *Animal Farm* was very good when it came out in 19whatever (I could check this, but warning – I'm going to spend this review being as annoying as possible to a certain group), but it's way, way better now. In whatever time of the 20th century this came out during, it was thought to be written in opposition to Stalinist Russia. That's fine. Whatever. Not exactly a hot take for a white guy from the Western world to be anti-USSR. But now... now it's abundantly clear. If it weren't alrea...

The animals will always be equal...except that some "pigs" will always see themselves as "more equal" than others. George Orwell, in 1943, presents us with a model of revolution. A revolution of animals against the "owner of the farm"...for their rights. A revolution like any revolution in human history...like the Russian Revolution, or the Roman Revolution, or...well, a revolution. A repeated story, almost with the same ending...if we haven't learned from history, will we learn from symbolism?...

George Orwell is disturbingly brilliant. He writes a novel where the main characters are animals on a farm, and you'd think it would be silly, or like a children's story. On the contrary, George Orwell conveys reality in all its nightmarish horror, makes history more understandable, and explains to us concisely how a human can turn into a pig and a pig into a human. Animal Farm is definitely a novel worth your time. A must-read for fans of political allegories and classic literature.

A truly perfect book. People will still be reading *Animal Farm* a thousand years from now, long after communism is just a footnote in history. If you're looking for powerful book reviews, look no further than George Orwell's masterpiece.

I've been meaning to read *Animal Farm* for ages, but I never quite got around to it. Last week, I finally read it and even gave a lesson on its historical context to my 8th-grade class, who will also be reading *The Wave*. I discovered that about 20 out of the 24 students had already read *Animal Farm*, and at least one knew it was an allegory for the Russian Revolution. Still, my lesson wasn't a complete waste of time! :)For those unfamiliar with the story, *Animal Farm* by George Orwell is ab...

Amazon's very Orwellian involvement with this book at the end. If Amazon ever partnered with Facebook they'd own us.This isn't really a review, but one of those moments where everything that was clear to you suddenly becomes utterly muddied, and you really can't say what lies beneath the murky waters, although a moment before you were sure you could.I'm reading Christopher Hitchens' astonishingly percipient and brilliant Arguably: Essays. I read *Animal Farm* too young to identify the individual...

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Those damn PIGS.

I can't even.