“I have recently started a group that plans to discuss this novel as well other prominent works of fiction:Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth CenturyA new group centered on a composite list of the best English-language fiction of the twentieth century. Please give it a look, join up and invite your friends!http://www.shelfari.com/groups/46898/about”
“i really like it”
“it was funny while being serious about the Russian Revolution and it made me understand everything about it.”
“This was a really bad and dumb book, don't read it!”
“Ive seen the movie and it counts... loved it”
“I'm just looking for opinions. What do you think the moral of Animal Farm is? ”
“I just finished reading this book yesterday and I wonder if someone could clear something up fpr me, I don't understand why it is that certain animals (i.e. those executed by the dogs) came forward to admit having colluded with Snowball. Was Napolean not just using Snowball as a scapegoat for all that was going wrong? Was he not innocent of all crimes? If so why would the animals suddenly get it in their heads to confess to crimes they hadn't commited?”
““What makes animal farm a great master-piece is the UNIQUE "belief in the suspension of your disbelief", if you know what i mean ...The bizzare idea of animals taking over the farm ,even talking for that matter (a fable it is .. true) but, suddenly it all seems so meaningful, so close to reality when i see what's happening today in the world around us, in the parliament , in the U.N. and else where and i find myself mummering ..."everybody is equal but some are more equal".It IS one of the best satirical literature we have (yet)... i think it even dwarfs the efforts of Joseph Heller in "catch 22" (to an extent ).George Orwell is the real napoleon ... he plays with our minds, brilliantly , and in doing so, sits back and mocks the very society he's a part of.....but, we still we love him... don't we?”
“This is the greatest example of satirical literature that I know of. Reading the introduction by C.M. Woodhouse definitely made reading it for the second time a more meaningful experience. Although we as readers crave the lesson any story might teach us, my favorite part about this book is that, just as Woodhouse points out to us, there is no morality within this novel. Even Boxer, everyone's most beloved character, is not intelligent enough to create his own morality. There is no protagonist or antagonist, because whatever is good, that part of the lesson which we wish to learn so much that we even create what does not exist, does not play a part in the story. Everything goes badly, even when we think things might get better. This is exactly Orwell's point: the Russian Revolution didn't really fix anything. There were no good guys. It just went badly. And maybe life is just like that sometimes. Not even you, your own main character in your own story, are always the protagonist.”
“Hi all -Just wanted to get feedback on a new website that a bunch of us (mostly Ph.D. and Masters students from Stanford and Berkeley) just recently launched.Here's our coverage of Animal Farm. We'd love to know what you think.http://www.shmoop.com/intro/literature/george-orwell/animal-farm.htmlThanks! ”
