Book - 2, Animal Farm

Animal Farm (1945)

by 

George Orwell 

Book Read: Feb 2015

Note Written: 29 June 2015

This was not the first time that I was reading Animal Farm, will not be the last time, too, I'm sure. This novella is a classic satire in all its senses. Even though the book is just about a hundred or so pages, it disturbs and engages you a lot in the course of reading. The turn of events is alarming when the ideas of communism and socialism turns slowly into the play-stage of power-hungry individuals and groups, while the working class remains the same as they were; struggling, crowded, hoping for a better future which would never come to them. Hope and a certain degree of belief in the system and promises given to them are the only things that's left for the proletariat. Even though the ideas of communism and socialism is one I embrace in my mind, human nature of selfishness could destroy everything in ways that you can't imagine, sometimes worse than autocracy. That thought scares me a lot. 

A disturbing, haunting, but great read.