After Reading "The Animal Farm"

Among the numerous books in the world, there are books that look at society with a critical perspective. These books, such as "1984", "Gulliver's Travel", and "The Wonderful New World", may be somewhat dark in content, but they make us think deeply again about what is the right society for us. Among them, George Orwell published many novels satirizing the society of the time or the future to come. Feeling interested in society and politics these days, I read one of his representative works, Animal Farm.

"Animal Farm" is a story of animals driving out the owners of the farms who abused them to build their own farms, which surprisingly resembles the appearance of human society. This is because it satirized the Russian Revolution and Stalin's dictatorship in the early 20th century. Rather than thinking of it as an animal story, it is more immersive to think and read that it is humans. There is also "Gulliver's Travel Story" as such a satirical novel, but there is a difference in that the two satirize different societies.

Animal Farm is a book that properly shows dictatorship and corruption politics. At first, animals revolutionize with antipathy to humans who only exploit and abuse animals. The society that animals wanted to create through this revolution was a society where all animals were equal and happy. Smart pigs take the lead in creating an ideal society. However, the confrontation between the two pigs, Snowball, and Napoleon, is getting worse, and eventually Napoleon mobilizes the fierce dogs he tamed to drive out Snowball. He continues his dictatorship by deceiving the rest of the animals with a bad head using a pig squealer with good speech.

In the end, animals except pigs live worse than they did at Jones Farm, and the ending of the book ends with pigs and humans sitting at tables together and fighting card games. But the important thing was that when pigs and humans intertwined at the end, it was already impossible to tell who pork was who human. Pigs are evidence that they resemble humans they hated so much.

After reading this book, I had many thoughts. The pigs gained the trust of the animals by using the fact that the rest of the animals were very bad-headed and presented ridiculous complex statistical data and grand speech. Here, the eloquent pig Squirer played a part. Also, the dictator Napoleon used his men to kill all of his enemies, snowballs, and animals that communicating with them. They threatened and frightened other animals so that they could not dream of rebellion.

Of course, dictators and the powerful did the most wrong, but I think other animals in the animal farm are also to blame. They did not resist the tyranny of pigs. I just blindly followed the pigs' actions, thinking they were all right. But if they had planned a rebellion with the right spirit, they would have been able to drive out Napoleon's powerful class and find an equal society again.

Through this work, I was able to critically think about the qualities of a good leader, an equal society, and right politics.