Fao - Naomi24

[agchristie]

Hi Naomi,

Just to let you know that I have devoured Animal Farm in one sitting!

Although under a hundred pages I found the content and depth behind it more superior to some books I've read that are much longer.

As you stated Naomi it is a very thought-provoking tale which I found absorbing. I daren't face going to a farm again lest i will be seen as a threat (or carrying an ace of spades!). That Napolean character was a manipulator and the hard working horse who was carried away for slaughter. Snowball got the blame for everything!

Liked the seven commandments too and that 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' !!

Great ending too!

I'm off to construct the windmill now... ;)

1984 next up!

[jno]

Mr Jones is Tsar Nicholas

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/characters.html

[Jackdaw33]

The phrase which always sticks in my mind is 'Two legs bad, four legs good'.

[agchristie]

Thanks Jno, yes I checked out afterwards who the characters were meant to be based on!

[Peter Pedant]

thanks jno
animal farm is not a roman a clef - or is it ?
presumably Napoleon is Lenin ....

[pixie374]

That's about all I remember from it, jackdaw. 1984 was better.

[Peter Pedant]

oh and well done ag for doing it

I bought David Copperfield for a foreign visitor who turned out to be luckwarm about it

and read vol 1 over a week end - thinking No wonder Dickens made a dickens of a lot of money out of his writing.....

Once you have done 1984 the book try the film - two versions one with and one without the title song "Sex crime" - annie lennox clearly not have the insight you have ..... There is a beeb 1952 tele version which I am not sure if it is on the internet .....

[agchristie]

Jackdaw,then, four legs is good and two legs better!!

[agchristie]

Thanks PP!

[DTCwordfan]

Ever seen FX's Archers programme, a wee think about using literary references in the show, for example, Animal Farm.

"Because if you're going to fight about a George Orwell novel, you might as well do it while you're in space. And the cast of Archer does so in season three's Space Race.

Archer: Wait, there are animals?

Lana: No, Animal Farm.

Cyril: How do you not get that?

Archer: No, I know what an animal farm is.

Cyril: Not an animal farm.

Archer: Maybe we can stampede a flock of goats down the hall.

Lana: ANIMAL FARM IS A BOOK!

Archer: No, it’s not Lana. It’s an allegorical novella about Stalinism by George Orwell, and spoiler alert, IT SUCKS.

Oops. Excuse me. Allegorical novella. Thank you Archer. "

[DTCwordfan]

(we had it as a book for O level English Lit along with Oliver Twist, the Mayor of Casterbridge (aka Castration) and Macbeth).

[Prudie]

It's actually a shame that we (I) were made to read it at school before it's true meaning had any meaning. Not been tempted to pick it up again. So unready for it that all I know is I hated it because the horse (Boxer??) died.

[jourdain2]

I read it for O level as well, still love it, understood it much better when I did A level History. There is an excellent 'cartoon' film, too.

[rockyracoon]

I absolutely agree Prudie. I had to read it at school and detested every bit of it, I may like it as an adult but there's no way I'd ever read it again.

[Jackdaw33]

Not really relevant, but interesting to note that Orwell's real name was Blair.

[agchristie]

True Jackdaw, he died the year after AF was published here.

[maggiebee]

Does nobody else find it strange that this post is addressed to Naomi but 8 other people have responded? No Naomi in sight as yet.

[agchristie]

Maggiebee - animals the lot of them! ;)

[naomi24]

ag, thank you so much for getting back to me. I’m not at all surprised you ‘devoured it in one sitting’. The author, to my mind, was profoundly observant of human nature. The pigs, the sheep, the horse, the dogs, the raven, and every other creature on the farm – they’re all there within humankind.

rockyracoon, //I may like it as an adult//

I don’t think anyone who understands it can ‘like it’, but if you can bring yourself to read it as an adult I'd be interested in your thoughts.

[naomi24]

maggiebee, why strange? I have a life outside of Answerbank.