Animal Farm

I. Preliminaries

A. Title

Animal Farm

B. Author

George Orwell

C. Publication

Harcourt, Brace & Co. States 1946

D. How many pages

144 pages

II. Introduction

Before reading the story, the first thing I did was to research about the novel and read some comments so that it will boost my interest in reading it. While I’m reading the novel I slowly associate it to the labors nowadays because some of our workers are not treated nice like in the novel. Should we still need to wait that they will do the same thing as in the novel? Or do some things that all of us will benefit. After reading this many moral lessons will be learned and these lessons will be applied to our lives.

III. The Author

Eric Blair was born in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, in the then British colony of India, where his father, Richard, worked for the Opium Department of the Civil Service. His mother, Ida, brought him to England at the age of one. He did not see his father again until 1907, when Richard visited England for three months before leaving again until 1912. Eric had an older sister named Marjorie and a younger sister named Avril. With his characteristic humour, he would later describe his family's background as "lower-upper-middle class."

Orwell's work

During most of his career Orwell was best known for his journalism, both in the British press and in books of reportage such as Homage to Catalonia (describing his experiences during the Spanish Civil War), Down and Out in Paris and London (describing a period of poverty in these cities), and The Road to Wigan Pier (which described the living conditions of poor miners in northern England). According to Newsweek, Orwell "was the finest journalist of his day and the foremost architect of the English essay since Hazlitt."

Orwell is also known for his insights about the political implications of the use of language. In the essay "Politics and the English Language", he decries the effects of cliche,...