Animal Farm

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(以前写的小短文, 用google胡乱翻译一下。网上有人推荐这本书，想起自己也写过，哈)

George Orwell is the kind of writer who writes nothing directly. As he indicated in his essay: “When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page.” In his masterpiece Animal Farm, Orwell puts Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in the form of animals, and describes it as in the view of an animal on the animal farmer.

Old Major is the incarnation of Vladimir Lenin. Old Major tells a dream that leads to animal rebellion, while Lenin initiates the Russian Revolution in 1917. Lenin skillfully won support for the Bolsheviks with slogans promising “peace, bread, and power”, while Old Major established his promised land as described in the book: “And above all, no animal must ever tyrannies over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.” (Orwell 6) Unfortunately, they are all died shortly after their success; potentially leave the big stage to the following two successors.

Snowball refers to Leon Trotsky, who is a member of the Central Committee of Bolshevik Party. Snowball is an idealistic young leader, and he really wants to make life better for all animals. He establishes Animalism which is “elaborated on Old Major’s teaching” (Orwell 9), and leads animals win the Batter of the Cowshed. He is further very ambitious to build windmill before he is chased away into exile by Napoleon’s dogs. Trotsky shares the same fate with Snowball. Trotsky is a pure communist who follows Marxism. He want to improve life for all in Russia, but he deported by Lenin’s secret police KGB.  

Additionally, Napoleon is exactly the manifestation of Joseph Stalin. Napoleon is a cruel, brutal, devious, and corrupt figure. His ambition is only for power. “Napoleon is always right” (Orwell 43) is the policy that performed by him to fool and rule animals. He uses dogs, Moses, and Squealer to control animals and kill opponents. Stalin does the same things. Stalin is not as educated as Trotsky; all he cares is power. He doesn’t follow Marx’s ideas. He fully controls people through KGB, church, and propagandizes physically and psychologically.

Allegory is a very powerful literature device that offered as a metaphor to criticize political figures. In his Animal Farm, George Orwell successfully tells the humans from the pigs. 

乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell）是那种不直接写东西的作家。正如他在论文中指出的那样：“当人们阅读任何强烈的个人作品时，就会有在页面后面某处看到一张脸的印象。”奥威尔在他的杰作《动物农场》中将列宁，托洛茨基和斯大林以动物的形式放置，并将其描述为动物农场主对动物的看法。

老少校是弗拉基米尔·列宁的化身。老少校讲述了一个导致动物叛乱的梦想，而列宁在1917年发起了俄国革命。列宁巧妙地赢得了对布尔什维克的支持，口号是“和平，面包和力量”，而老少校则建立了自己的应许之地。本书：“最重要的是，任何动物都绝不能对自己的动物施暴。弱者或强者，聪明者或简单者，我们都是兄弟。任何动物都不得杀死任何其他动物。所有动物都是平等的。” （奥威尔6）不幸的是，他们都在成功后不久就死亡了。可能会为以下两个继任者留下重要的舞台。 雪球指的是列夫·托洛茨基（Leon Trotsky），他是布尔什维克党中央委员会的成员。

Snowball是一位理想主义的年轻领袖，他确实想让所有动物的生活都变得更好。他建立了“在旧少校的教学中详尽阐述”的动物主义（奥威尔9），并带领动物赢得了牛棚的连击。在被拿破仑的狗追逐流放之前，他还非常有志于建造风车。托洛茨基与斯诺鲍有着同样的命运。托洛茨基是一个遵循马克思主义的纯粹共产主义者。他想改善俄罗斯所有人的生活，但被列宁的秘密警察克格勃驱逐出境。

另外，拿破仑正是约瑟夫·斯大林的体现。拿破仑是一个残酷，残酷，狡猾和腐败的人物。他的雄心只在于权力。 “拿破仑永远是对的”（奥威尔43）是他为愚弄和统治动物而采取的政策。他使用狗，摩西和窃贼控制动物并杀死对手。斯大林也做同样的事情。斯大林的教育程度不如托洛茨基；他只关心权力。他没有遵循马克思的想法。他通过克格勃，教堂完全控制着人们，并在身体和心理上进行宣传。

寓言是一种非常强大的文学工具，可作为隐喻来批评政治人物。乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell）在他的动物农场里，成功地讲述了猪群中的人类。