Animal Farm

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

出版者:Signet Classics

作者:[英] 乔治·奥威尔

页数:141

出版时间:1996-4-1

价格:USD 9.99

装帧:Mass Market Paperback

isbn号码:9780451526342

丛书系列:Signet Classics

图书标签:GeorgeOrwell英文原版政治寓言反乌托邦小说乔治·奥威尔外国文学政治

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

读后感

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The outside creatures looked outside from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but really it's impossible to say which was which.

在返程的机上读完最后三个chapters，印象最深的还是读中文版时特意去看了原文的那句all animals are equal,but some animals are more equal than others；“四条腿好，两条腿坏”的两个“凡是”，之于我，很可乐。

迄今为止看得最为顺畅的一本原版。或许是对于作者的写作背景、表达主题和风格太过了解吧。很高兴能在新年第一个星期就开了一个读原版的好头。另：奥威尔小说中的悲恸，我们还会体会多久。

在返程的机上读完最后三个chapters，印象最深的还是读中文版时特意去看了原文的那句all animals are equal,but some animals are more equal than others；“四条腿好，两条腿坏”的两个“凡是”，之于我，很可乐。

极权主义有几个特征： 1.人民生活在愚昧之中，逆来顺受 2.社会越来越富裕，统治者越来越富并拥有更多的特权，他们宣扬生活越来越好，事实上人民越来越贫穷，工作越来越苦 3.不遗余力地抹杀历史 4.树立所谓的“反面人物”靶子，批判、仇恨，清理政敌 5.统治者私下与不同的政权勾结 6.在语言文化上限制民众的思想 7.对统治者歌功颂德 8.统治者身边围绕一群爪牙或亲卫队一样的存在，必要时恐吓民众、赶走政敌