The cartoon was altered for children's tastes. Toned down and made more explicit, plus [SPOILER - highlight to read]: having the overthrow of Napoleon at the end which certainly never appeared in the book.
As an allegory of the Russian Revolution, it is as good an introduction to the history of that time as can be... Orwell was a great writer, and the film of the book, though good, was spoiled as Shaber says by alterations... if you liked it, try 1984, an even more chilling image of what happens when the few hold the power to change history....
1984 was the most mature of his works. I read an essay he did on Politics and the English Language and that had the rudiments of the concepts in 1984, perfected ten years later.
Animal Farm was less chilling to such an extent as to be beyond compare...
I read it for my country's equivalent to seventh grade. I'd read it earlier though, when I was around eight or so years old, but I didn't comprehend the underlying meanings.
I've never seen the cartoon, but I've seen the movie. Pity I can't really remember the movie.
And, yeah. I liked the parallels with the Russian Revolution.
The movie was good, as well as the book. It takes a little thinking to figure out who and what everything stands for as compared to the Russia Rev. It's not a perfect match, but over 90% of it can be directly related to it. Some char in the book are hybrids of two people, like Old Major (Marx and Lenin)
had to read this for my 12th grade goverment class but i didnt read it.. just like catcher in th rye ill have to go back and read it to see what i missed...
I had to read Animal Farm in 10th grade because the school made me. I didnt really care, it was interesting enough. ...I started to cry though...I cant say where cuz it might give the book away to people who havent read it.
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Apr 21st, 2004 06:28 PM
Who's more equal than me? 
I had a little breakdown afret reading it. That what we all are, guys. Friggin animals.
