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.
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.
2006年3月23日 讀書筆記《動物莊園》 奧威爾你估量的事情,基本都沒有說錯。但總有一些小小的意外,你沒有猜到,也就沒辦法言說。在主人房的窗沿底下,動物們窺見豬頭拿破倫,變化齣一張人類的臉孔,他們之後的反應,書裏就沒瞭下文,這讓我聯想紛紛,不知所措。 我所遭遇的...
評分1.母牛唱的是哞哞的低音聲部,狗的哀叫適用於長腔,羊的咩咩、馬的嘶鳴、鴨的呷呷叫,統統各得其所。 2.人的區彆性標誌是手,人正是用它來乾一切壞事的。 3.隻有一種人是好的,那就是死人。 4.於是,《英格蘭生靈》再也聽不見瞭。詩人小不點兒譜寫瞭另一首歌取而代之,它的...
評分這是我近年來讀過的最覺得值得讀的一本書。也是在知乎上的一個問題,你最相見恨晚的一本書,很多人提到瞭這本。 《動物莊園》寫於1943年,但七十年過去瞭,書中的描述一樣在天朝,在世界各國上演著~不能不說,這是一部偉大的著作。 動物們一起努力奮鬥,打倒瓊斯...
評分事實上我們不能稱之為一個“童話”,至少從內容和受眾上來看並不完全是。不動聲色的敘述之下,實為一則政治寓言,或是預言。而作者在烏剋蘭版的序言中也提到:“有些情節取自俄國革命的真實曆史••••••打破蘇聯神話是必要的••••••想用一個故...
很巧,剛看到中國成為全球第二富的新聞,貼段話:somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer——except,of course,for the pigs and the dogs.
评分everyone is equal. some pigs are more equal.
评分奧威爾不從豬的角度去寫,而從其他動物的角度,那正是我們觀察利益驅動社會的角度,但同時並不否定我們也是豬的可能。
评分everyone is equal. some pigs are more equal.
评分以動物喻人,不至於像《一九八四》讀得壓抑,卻又常常對應現實。
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