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ANIMAL FARM,The allegorical allegory of anti Utopian politics反乌托邦政治讽喻寓言,BY GROUP 3,ANIMAL FARM,an anti-totalitarian classic，published in 1945 August. Animal Farm is also a political novellas, fable is a form of narration ,which is generally ralatively short length ,but extremly satire and educational.,TITLE & CATEGORY,ABOUT AUTHOR,Eric Arthur Blair ,better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose and awareness of social injustice.,BACKGROUND,Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War.The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror.,In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin and in his essay Why I Write (1946), wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.,Introduction of the Main Figures,Old Major-pig, put forward the idea of animal doctrine, allude to Marx and Lenin.,Snowball-pig, one of the leaders of the animal Manor, An enemy that was expelled and declared a revolution, allude to Leon.,Stalin Boxer-horse,the faithful pursuer of animals concept of mind responds positively to the call of revolutionary leaders and symbolizes the broad masses of good people who believe in revolutionary theory.,Trotsky Napoleon- pig,one of the leaders of the animal Manor, later became the leader of the manor Alluding.,Benjamin- donkey, an intellectual who symbolizes independent thought and has doubts about totalitarianism but protects himself.,STORYLINE,A pig in the farm named Major died after putting up the theory of human exploitation of livestock and livestock need revolution. After the years, a pig led a revolution in the farm . The original exploiters-farmers, were chased away. The livestock realized the desire to be masters of the farm, tasted the sweetness of the fruit of revolution. And the farm, renamed animal farm, and formulated the constitution of the manor, the seven commandments.,STORYLINE,But soon the revolution were split, the pigs who had acquired the leadership had more and more power and special treatment, gradually separated from the other animals and eventually transformed into the same animal exploiters as human beings. And the name of the “animal farm” has been given up.,BOOK REVIEW,I supposed it was an interesting and joyful novel before I read it, because I thought it was something like a fairy tale. However, it was really sarcastic and the ending made me angry and sad. The situation was that they overthrew the human s cruel rule but rebuild another cruel rule. Those pigs were clever but very mean! They expelled Snowball away. They always told lies and excelled in turning black into white. They lacked of sympathy, compassion and love. They were totally selfish. Many of them fought against the authority but remained dead.,BOOK REVIEW,Hunger,hardship and disappointment are the unalterable law of life.And yet the animals never give up hope.More,they never lost for an instant their sense of honor and privilege in being members of Animal Farm.,