Animal Farm
George OrwellStatus: âś… Finished
Finished in date: 2025-07-29
Thoughts
I’ve finally started reading consistently again, and this book was the perfect launchpad to get me back into the habit.
In just 100 pages, it portrays the rise and fall of the Soviet Union from a moral and ethical perspective, with accurate, metaphorical, and brilliant historical references.
From the initial state of revolt—energetic and shared by all under the song Beasts of England (as in every situation of alienation and subjugation, folk singing always proves to be a source of unity and collective struggle)—to the final dystopia, tragic in every aspect, the story is well-structured, gripping, and each animal is given space to be described and to develop.
It’s a perfect representation of what rebellion truly means and of how propaganda, which Orwell loves to depict, can manipulate the masses to feed a few and make many work.
The narrative turning point, marked by the disappearance of the apples and milk (stolen by the pigs), is significant and explicit, as it marks the beginning of the end of the idyllic situation in Animal Farm.
Nothing more to say: brilliant, funny, thought-provoking, and melancholic. It saddened me a lot (especially because of Snowball!!!) but it left me deeply satisfied.
