My favourite novel
Masayuki Sato
In fact, my major is English literature in my university. However, I’m not interested in literature. So actually I study not English literature but English linguistics mainly. Because my major is English literature, I have read some novels in class. I don’t have any favourite writer but of the novels I’ve read, Animal Farm (1945) is my favourite novel.
Animal Farm was the novel written by George Orwell (1903-1950) in 1945. Orwell took part in a Civil War in Spain. After that, he wrote this novel bitterly criticizing a Stalinism and totalitarianism on the first half of a 20th century.
This is the story in which many animals which were kept by human beings rose in rebellion one day and then they ruled the farm instead of humans. However, some animals became despotic and governed the other animals absolutely. For that reason, many wars and civil strife happened; finally confusion and fear surrounded the farm.
This was a satiric novel and an allegory so all a characters were modeled on real persons. For example, the pig which was named Napoleon was modeled on Iosif Stalin, the politician from the Soviet Union. Napoleon ruled the farm with tyranny. Another example of this was the farm where these animals lived. This farm was modeled on the Soviet Union. The other farm which was named Pinchfield was Germany under the Nazism. They invaded an Animal farm many times.
This novel attracts me because it is not only fun, but we can study the background of that age. I didn’t have any idea about Stalinism or a Civil war in the Soviet Union etc. but thanks to reading this novel, I got to know those things a little more than before.
In fact, my major is English literature in my university. However, I’m not interested in literature. So actually I study not English literature but English linguistics mainly. Because my major is English literature, I have read some novels in class. I don’t have any favourite writer but of the novels I’ve read, Animal Farm (1945) is my favourite novel.
Animal Farm was the novel written by George Orwell (1903-1950) in 1945. Orwell took part in a Civil War in Spain. After that, he wrote this novel bitterly criticizing a Stalinism and totalitarianism on the first half of a 20th century.
This is the story in which many animals which were kept by human beings rose in rebellion one day and then they ruled the farm instead of humans. However, some animals became despotic and governed the other animals absolutely. For that reason, many wars and civil strife happened; finally confusion and fear surrounded the farm.
This was a satiric novel and an allegory so all a characters were modeled on real persons. For example, the pig which was named Napoleon was modeled on Iosif Stalin, the politician from the Soviet Union. Napoleon ruled the farm with tyranny. Another example of this was the farm where these animals lived. This farm was modeled on the Soviet Union. The other farm which was named Pinchfield was Germany under the Nazism. They invaded an Animal farm many times.
This novel attracts me because it is not only fun, but we can study the background of that age. I didn’t have any idea about Stalinism or a Civil war in the Soviet Union etc. but thanks to reading this novel, I got to know those things a little more than before.
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ReplyDeleteI haven´t read the book, but many years ago I watched a cartoon film based on it and it was very good. Although when I watched I wasn't able to appreciate the background of the movie, so for me it was nothing else but cartoons.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, the criticism made by George Orwell is incredibly ingenious and the metaphoric roles of the animals fit perfectly in the real characters that they represent (the comparison of the dictators with a group of fat pigs who were enjoying all kind of commodities while the rest of the people were starving is just awesome!)