Eric Arthur Blair, known as

George Orwell, the author of

„Animal Farm” was born on 25th

of June in 1903 in Montihari in

India. He was very talented and

whereby scholarship he was

able to study. He became a

great journalist, political author

and novelist. Apart from „Animal

farm”, other well-known book he

had written is Nineteen Eighty-

Four. He lived through two

World Wars and died in January

of 1950, because of

Tuberculosis.

If we would like to talk about the plot, it is very

simple. The story is just about group of animals living
on the Mr Jones’ farm. One day the quadrapeds take
over the running of a grange, and everything is
wonderful for a while — until the pigs get out of hand.
At first, the rebellion is an amazing success. The farm
animals are giddy with joy and quickly change how
everything is done on the farm.

Seven basic principles are drawn up and

painted on the side of the shed, the animals do
their tasks with far more efficiency than
possible before and work more collectively, the
harvest is the best they've ever seen, and
everyone has more food and more leisure.

The only sign of the trouble to come is that the pigs
don't seem to do much of the physical work, instead
saying that they're the best ones to do the organizing
and directing. But slowly, the pigs take more and more
control, the principles begin to change conveniently,
times get worse, and Napoleon slowly seizes control,
that will bring awful effects later to all of the
habitancy.

Animal Farm is, of

course, a satirical

allegory, very specifically

of the Russian Revolution

and of Stalin (Napoleon

in the book), but more

generally of revolution,

the idealism of utopias,

and the way in which

people take control of

societies founded on

principles of equality.

Several of the characters and

settings have obvious specific

mappings: Mr. Jones is Tsar

Nicholas II, the farm itself is

Russia, the neighboring farms

are neighboring countries

(particularly Pinchfield,

representing Germany, and

Foxwood, representing the

Allies), old Major is Marx

(with perhaps a bit of Lenin),

Napoleon as mentioned is

Stalin, Snowball is Trotsky,

and Squealer is Pravda and

the Russian government

propaganda in general.

But many of the
other characters
represent broader
classes of people or
even ideas, and the
story reads
wonderfully as both a
specific satire and a
general commentary
on revolution and
government.

I had read this book the

day before I made this
presentation. I had to read it,
because it is on the
compulsory reading list.
Accoarding to the fact how
huge impression this story
made on me, I decided to
describe just this tale.

It exposes how easily we can be
manipulated by dominating
layers, groups or even single
people. Pig arouse anger,
similarly to Bolshewicks and
especially Stalin, hovewer it
doesn’t refer to only those
people. We can find examples of
such a situations almost
everywhere, just with different
intensification.

Sources:

•

www.biografia24.pl

•

www.pl.wikipedia.org

•

www.google.pl

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