First Impressions on Animal Farm

Having only the last chapter to read, I am ashamed by the horrible capabilities of man. And I am not talking about the way Jones slaughters the animals. Animal Farm goes way deeper than a book where the pigs like to drink and tell lies. But exposes that these pigs were in fact replicas of people. I am immensely grateful that I was not born and alive during any time of the Russian Revolution. The suffering and the inequality those people were victim to is quite scary. It bothers me that people can take advantage of others and ignore their guilty conscience which gnaws at them to do right. How can you be so brute? But it reminds me of the inequality of Apartheid and the suffering in the Middle East. Is there no justice in the world? The book is short, precise and very clear. It is genius how George Orwell created the whole scenario of a farm to expose the Revolution. The people were uneducated, unable to think for themselves and very easily taken advantage of. So were the people of the Revolution. The book is an allegory, and satire. People need a leader, a form of order. It is this leader that can uphold or disgrace his position. When the leader does become sour, the people should do something to remove him. That’s what I learnt from the book, and to never allow yourself to be put in a position where you can be manipulated.