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Sagesse High School

English Department

Animal Farm

Book Review

2014-2015

Orwell,George. Animal Farm.Animal Farm. Fairy story.London.Secker and workey. 1953. Print. Reprinted by librairie du laiban 2013. 123 pages. 7500 L.L

Reviewed by Gaby Choueiry .8.L.P. Sagesse High School

Mrs. May Saad Wakim

Born in 1903, George Orwell, novelist, essayist and critic, went on to become best known for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell is the penname for Eric Arthur Blair who has created some of the sharpest satirical fiction of the 20th century with such works as Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was a man of strong opinion who accused the tyranny in communism of abusing people’s rights. Orwell is the son of British parents who worked for the imperial army in India. At the age of eight, George Orwell, was sent to a boarding school on the South Coast of England. “The first of Orwell's great cries of despair was Animal Farm, his satirical beast fable, often heralded as his lightest, gayest work. Though it resembles the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin, it is more meaningfully an anatomy of all political revolutions, where the revolutionary ideals of justice, equality, and fraternity shatter in the event.” (bio.com)

Animal farm is a fable, allegory, and a political a satire that aims to ridicule the communist Russia under Stalin’s reign and the Russian revolution in general. The point of view of the story is third person omniscient point of view narrated as well from animals’ perspectives. The major implied theme is the abuse of Language as instrumental to the abuse of power. In the beginning, the animals revolute against the owner of the farm, Mr. Jones. The Farm was then owned and run by animals. The animals of the farm lived happily because old major established the rules of animalism that animals benefitted from and protected their rights and freedom to live equally. The first Animals were the happiest since they were...