Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The story describes the brewing, rise and final transformation of an "animalistic" revolution. The animals in the farm were unbearable to the oppressors of human beings. They were led up against the farmer by the pigs. And then the animals realized they want to be "masters of the family" and the farm was renamed "Animals Farm." , declared "all animals are equal." After that, the two leading pigs fight each other for the power, and the winner announced that the other party was a traitor. Since then, the pigs that have gained leadership have become more and more powerful and become new privileged classes. Those animals who are slightly dissatisfied will be bloody cleansed. The main idea of the farm is changed to "some animals are higher level to other animals." In the end, the animals returned to the tragic situation of the past.
I was really interested in the second half of the story that Napoleon started to rewrite the statement when they first started building animal farms. His previous small changes in animals were convinced that they remembered incorrectly. Napoleon would not change what they fight for years for no
reason, but as time went on, Napoleon changed more and more, animals cannot be convinced but under the dog’s violence, they have to keep their mouth shut. In the end, Napoleon kept only one sentence and is contrary to the original intention of this animal farm, but animals could do nothing. The reason why I particularly like this is this part of the story is happening around me. I can clearly feel that something is changing and not towards a good direction, such as the government started 'second child' policy in China, and suggested that the mother should return to the family instead of working. This is a step backwards in feminism, but they still not allow people to complain about this. All they did is close the comment area of this news and deleted those social media accounts who dare to complain.
Before I actually started researching this book, I was amazed by the prophecy of this book during the reading process, because the content of the book is actually happening, but after doing some historical background research, I realized these things had happened and course some serious problem, even torn the whole country apart. With such historical examples, I get more confused about why the government wants to control people's minds and wants to put people's minds in their hands.