Animal Farm by George Orwell

Overview

• Animal Farm is the story of a set of animals who overthrow their human-owner.
• This book will explain Communism in the form of simple stories from the perspective of animals
• Lot of political maneuvers and totalitarian rule is explained using animals perspectives similar to what humans do
• Book will start with animimal rebellion to start revolution to stop what is happening and comming to same position from it's started. going full circle. Just change of power from Humans to pigs.
• Each animal represent different class
• This book tells how the ruling class makes fool of the working class, uses their energies and resources for their own pleasure. What happens behind the closed doors of power.
• How the working class is being brain washed that they are happy and satisfied and free despite of the obvious slavery they have been undergoing.

Quotes

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”

“The only good human being is a dead one.”

“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”