动物农场读书笔记(3)篇

Animal Farm is an allegorical novel written by George Orwell. It reflects the author’s thought against totalitarianism, and considered as a masterpiece of Orwell, as well as 1984.

This fairy story took place in a fictitious farm in England where the cattle couldn’t bear the oppression from their human master. Affected by the principles of Animalism put forward by“Old Major”(nickname of an old boar in Manor Farm), the farm animals rose up en masse and expelled their human oppressors in a dramatic rebellion. Under the leadership of two boars, Snowball and Napoleon, the cattle began to build an ideal homeland where all animals are equally treated, well feed, have a decent education and will enjoy their lifetime. After a spell of harmonious and enlightened time, however, power struggle became theme of the leadership gradually, also with privilege. Napoleon out-maneuvered his opponent Snowball and reached the highest post finally. Since then, this Berkshire boar and his followers in management got corruption increasingly and lead an extravagant lifestyle, while other civilian animals lived an impoverished and toiling life. The leaders even broke and willfully distorted the vows given by the revolutionaries, drank, made deals with human to gain luxury goods. At last, shockingly, the boars had learned to walk with two feet like human beings. They degenerated to what they revolted originally. As the cattle back into the miserable condition, maybe even worse, the so-called ideal society for animals ultimately became evil utopia.

An interesting one in this novel is that Orwell chose pig as the leader of animal. The reason I guess may be that the pig is a symbol of greedy. Pig don’t labor to gain food like other cattle animals, its ugly looking indicates the twisted inner mind of the dictator.

G. Orwell once acknowledged that this novel actually insinuates Russian Revolution and Joseph Stalin who is the character archetype of “Napoleon”. He criticizes overcentralization of power, and don’t trust the humanity under totalitarianism. In his work, we can always see the non-humanistic coldness, along with uniformity and obedience in the totalitarian society. His works enlighten us to maintain vigilance towards abusive power, to pursue real democracy, to prevent equality and justice from being merely a slogan and a disguised means of egoists and monocrats.

除去显而易见的政治讽刺意味，个故事还告诉我们n知识＋眼界＋野心/梦想＋执行力＝命运n大马Boxer不识字，太容易被哄骗，也无法自己学习，比如学习前人经验比如学习最新科技n有几个动物认点字，却仅仅停留在表面，没有洞察力，不求探究文字的背后，也就不能将知识转换为行动；n闷驴Benjamin有知识有一定眼界，能看清棋局；但是没什么前瞻性，也缺少热情和开拓精神；属于不语的观棋君子；不过让他上去走几步估计最好情况是保持现状，不太能期待他能几步落子，漂亮地扭转乾坤；n悲催梦想猪Snowball 有知识有领悟力有眼界，能领导发展，有梦想，想领导大家奔幸福；但是其野心不够，没有长远规划，从而没有很早武装自己，没有自己的舆论支持，最后落得被架空被栽赃成果被窃取；n野心家Napoleon有知识有思想有野心，从一开始他就明确的目标，很早建立了自己的武装和喉舌，为以后的发展保驾护航；然后步步为营，该出狠手绝不含糊，最后成全了自己的野心……n～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～n说了这么多，我其实是那个有点小头脑但是短视成为不了领导者，并且甘愿平庸在自己世界里的驴子……n

故事戛然而止，一直期待着斯诺鲍会回来，期待动物们会觉醒，期待着这个统治会终结…n这个故事感觉是1984的前传，讲述普通动物的思想是怎么一步一步麻木，统治者是怎样一步一步“得寸进尺”的。从一开始觉得没有疑问，然后好像有疑问但不确定，再到有疑问但不敢发声，再到不知道有没有疑问，直到完全没有疑问，一步步丧失独立思考的能力，一点点失去自己。两个故事都在不停地告诉我们，思考的重要性，面对你的生活你的现实，时刻不能丢失自己。印象最深刻的是鲍克瑟死的那段，一个一辈子为拿破仑马首是瞻兢兢业业，对生活充满热忱对未来充满希望的人，最后结局却那么悲凉，让我第一次深刻的对这群愚民感到无奈感到悲凉对这个制度感到愤怒。两本书里面，作者都对社会主义充满怀疑和“敌意”，但我认为这并不是社会主义的弊病，这是所有制度都有的弊病，再完美无缺的制度都挡不住人的欲望，控制不住人性的恶。