Animal Farm... Shall sign it out from the school library on Tuesday (Next day I go to school, since monday is Thanksgiving), and start reading it then. Unless homework goes crazy, in which case I may not be able to read it.
Weeeeell, November third has mostly come and gone!
I apologize for not posting sooner, but unfortunately I was, for some reason, under the impression we'd bumped to the 4th. REGARDLESS!
I have some fine opinion of the book, but first, I'd like to open it on up to the floor and see what the rest of the peanut gallery has to say
coincidentally animal farm is what my english teacher made me read before sem break. But hey life's weird like that. :nuts:
It was a good read. Especially how the animals are being convinced by the pigs that everything they say and do is "in the spirit of animalisim" when in truth the majority of their actions only benefit themselves.
Symbolisim between Trotsky and Stalin was very apparent in Both Snowball and Napoleon.
(Napoleon=Stalin,Snowball=Trotsky. Read your Russian revolution history people!!)
Having done most of the research for the Bolshevic "October Revolution" I think that it's stunningly portrayed in this sense... the animals are great symbology. I'd completely forgotten about that litter of puppies until... welllll... haha.
"Some are more equal than others" is just so powerful in truth, even in today's society. I don't forsee a time when it won't be true. I'm still waiting on others before I get into sticky details
Better even the second time. The straightforward writing style is perfectly suited for this fable-like novella.
Benjamin was my favorite character because I felt he represented the cynical/intellectual members of society that knew enough to not get involved in politics.
Boxer, representing the middle class, brought about a very sad event for me when he was sent to the "knacker's." His blindly ignorant loyalty was depressing to read.
Reading it for the 2nd time was just as good, I still love how much of a diss it is to the Soviet Union and Russian Communism. I especially found it funny when they called each other "Comrade" :thup:
It's a really great book with awesome symbolism. Very true as well. I took Boxer as the working class though. They were worked excessively, promised a good life later on, but were later disposed of as if they were nothing.
I love the role of the dogs. I found they were representative of the obedient-to-the-end stylings of an army trained only to follow their master. The animals all had a sense of respect for one another, but the dogs were trained to have no feeling towards the rest; they were bred without a sense of the humane. Goes to show what the sharpest teeth (biggest stick) can do...
I don't think I'm dealing with quite the same pressures though, at the very least its a significantly smaller system. For the time being I'm just going to put together a quick scrubby box though and hope it works good enough to not make my house toxic
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.