Shannon
Hillsborough
Animal Farm (1946) — 35 weeks ago
I finally got around to reading Orwell’s famous satirical allegory, and it didn’t disappoint. This is a classic story of revolution and the corruption of power, with the animals who take over Animal Farm each representing groups or types of people in the social structure, such as the elite (the pigs), the bourgeoisie (Millie, the horse), the working class (Boxer, the horse) and the silent cynics (the donkey, my favorite character). Even though I knew it was allegorical, I had to laugh at the mental image of pigs milking cows. The famous last line sums it up:
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.









