Animal Farm - book review.

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Craig Mcveigh

Animal Farm Coursework                

‘Animal Farm’ is a book written by George Orwell in 1943 during the time of the World War Two. He mainly wrote this story to satirise Josef Stalin who was  in control of Russia at the time.

‘Anima Farm’ is a fable this means a story with meaning. There are three major messages in the story. The messages that George Orwell writes about relate to the Russian revolution. The three messages are ‘Life is Cruel and Heartless’. ‘ People/Creatures are hypocritical’. The last message and probably the most important one is ‘those with honesty virtues and ideals always suffer in the end’.

The first message is ‘Life is Cruel and Heartless’. This message relates to the animal farm because the animals work extremely hard for Mr Jones and he couldn’t care less about what they feel. He wants them working all the time. Mr Jones orders them to do all this work and he doesn’t take into consideration the animals feelings and needs. In this Mr Jones is meant to represent the Czar (leader of Russia) and the animals represent the hardworking peasants of Russia.

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The pigs eventually gain control of the farm. The animals are promised to be looked after by the pigs. But the pigs had seen the cruelty and selfishness of Mr Jones towards the animals. The pigs soon adopted the same attitude. The pigs especially Napoleon, became cruel and uncaring towards the rest of the animals. Napoleon was the new leader of the farm. He worked the animals just as hard as Mr Jones had worked them. Napoleon was particularly cruel to Boxer. Boxer was a shire horse and one of the strongest and most hardworking animal on the farm. ...

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