Animal Farm : Fairy tale

Animal Farm -"it is the history of revolution that went wrong" is a beautiful novel , it is a caustic remark on the corrupting influence of the power . Power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is a good story and it shows that it is the human nature and the diversity which restricts humans to be equal and happy.

The story is set on the Manor Farm, owned and operated by Mr. Jones. But One night the oppressed animals rebel and drive out Jones of his farm and decide to run the farm themselves.
The animals decided on set of rules where each would work according to his capacity and respect each others and all animals will be equal. And then there are the seven commandments, the things that separate animals from tyrants, that make all animals equal.The initial chapters of the novel are very humorous , where the animals sing songs against the humans "Beast of England" , and some catch phrases are used by the animals against the humans. Like sheep's are always saying "Four legs good two legs bad !!"

The revolution brought by the animals was doomed from the beginning there were some of the idealistic motto's like no animal would hurt other animal , weak or strong all are equal , but it all failed as the pigs being most intelligent reversed all the commandments that were set initially and established their rule under the leadership of Napolean. Slowly over the course of the novel Napolean becomes a dictator and all other animals follow his orders by heart and changes all the commandments one by one which were the core principal of the Animal farm.

Orwell has shown how the power turned the pigs from simple friends to the dictators and by the end even pigs walk on two legs , the story is shown as the warning against the political power games and in the end a group of human farmers come to see the farm, they quarrel with the pigs over a game of cards - and the animals discover they can no longer tell which is human and which is pig.

There are many humourous intances like when human attacked the animal farm and animals fought bravely and won the war in the end they decide to create a military decoration called as
" Animal hero First class " and named battle as " Battle of Cowshed " .

Overall its a beautiful novel and a small one around 90 pages. Read and enjoy !!

~Apurva