On August 17, 1945, 74 years ago today, the British writer George Orwell's novella "Animal Farm" was first published, which was a very powerful book, and I remember reading it in college and simply regarding it as a god's work. Before that, I had not read a book of this genre and type, and I immediately recommended it to my classmates and friends around me, and after reading it, they all said that this was a special book, an eye-opening book, and a book that also made ripples and thoughts in our hearts. All in all, it's a good book.
I remember vividly that when I read the last page of the book and read the last paragraph, I was excited to stand up and applaud Orwell. The meaning, implication, symbolism, and irony of the ending design, you can only be stunned, shout in your heart, and then reminisce about the wonderful senses brought to you by the whole book. If you read it again, you will feel deep and surprised.
After work, I reread it again, and the reading experience was also very memorable. I was very impressed that I felt that the words in the book hid knives, and I was extremely afraid to think about it, and in some places my back was cold when I read it. What a wonderful thing it is to read a book, that passage comes from what we see in the book, giving us a different experience, which is not available in real life. In this book, our character becomes a pig, and we follow this pig on an extraordinary journey of absurdity.
I won't repeat the synopsis of the book here, because some of the words, positions, and ideas in this book are not so numb, and I try to use a language that you can understand and read, and say where to count. This book was the first time I read the story of the fictionalization of the characters as animals, with animals as the protagonists. The novel says: "I can't change the environment, I can only change myself", when the pigs on the farm feel that they are managed and bullied by humans, they initially take various measures, a lot of irony happens, and some of the reactions and attitudes of other pig members also deeply expose a lot of human nature problems.
Eventually, the animal managed the farm and became its own leader. However, the reversal of the ending is wonderful, and the managers of the animals begin to formulate some rules and systems that they could not accept at first. The manager of the pig wears the clothes of the farmer, lives in the farmer's house, and trades and business with other farmers. Other pigs, on the other hand, work around the clock, have less and less free time, and if any of them dare to resist, they will be eaten by dogs, and the dogs here also have symbolic significance.
Eventually, after the belief that "all animals are equal" before the farm was changed to "all animals are born equal, but some animals are more equal than other animals", the farm completely disappeared, all animals returned to the previous miserable situation, and the manager pig gradually broke away from the pig herd and other animals, becoming a livestock manager exactly like a person, and the name of the animal farm no longer existed.
Finally, man and pig are in a room, and the novel reads, "There is no need to ask any more what has changed in the face of the pig." The beings outside see people from pigs, from people to pigs, and then from pigs to people, but they can no longer tell who is a pig and who is a man. This sentence is simply divine, so wonderful! If you are interested in this book, you can understand the background of Orwell's writing of this book, which looks like a fairy tale, but the theme of this fairy tale is the harshness and horror of the adult world.
It is worth mentioning that the animals in the book have extremely vivid and vivid personalized displays, and each animal has a shadow of a certain mapping object to a greater or lesser extent. Orwell's role in the animals was fun, such as the horses in the manor, although they were not high in IQ or very intelligent, but they were loyal and sincere. The image of the crow is not pragmatic and likes to talk about it. Sheep are blindly gregarious animals. Cats are unsociable animals. The donkey only knows how to protect himself, symbolizing intellectuals with independent thoughts. The donkey in the book is called Benjamin, and Orwell once said that Benjamin was a mirror of himself. In addition to animals, a few human representatives also have certain symbolic meanings, such as Mr. Jones, Mr. Pilkington, Mr. Wimper and so on.
Fairy tales and fables are also a way of narration, which can be unrestricted by times and regions. Many people find resonance in this book, which seems absurd, but has a certain prophetic significance, and has to admit that Orwell is a person with special talents. Sadly, he died of illness at the age of 46, and we never get a chance to see better of him.