Animal Farm

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

The animal farm animals are free, having rebelled and expelled their human masters. Working hard under the leadership of the pigs Snowball and Napoleon, the animals toil and work harder than ever. At least all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

🎨 Impressions

Proguoundly impresed. Felt like this was one of the strongest

How I Discovered It

It is known as a must read.

Who Should Read It?

Everyone. It is super important to read a book like this.

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

"I will work harder". The horse Boxer really resonated with me. What is the point of being driven and hard working when you get screwed. If you do everything right and work hard and still lose why should you play the game.

It is the duty of all free men and women to question the authorities.

✍️ My Top Quotes

"I will work harder" - Boxer "Four legs good, two legs bad" -sheeps

which they had brought out of the farmhouse. Snowball also busied himself with organising the other animals into what he called Animal Committees. He was indefatigable at this. He formed the Egg Production Committee for the hens, the Clean Tails League for the cows, the Wild Comrades’ Re-education Committee (the object of this was to tame the rats and rabbits), the Whiter Wool Movement for the sheep, and various others, besides instituting classes in reading and writing. On the whole, these projects were a failure. The attempt to tame the wild creatures, for instance, broke down almost immediately.

ccording to Napoleon, what the animals must do was to procure firearms and train themselves in the use of them. According to Snowball, they must send out more and more pigeons and stir up rebellion among the animals on the other farms. The one argued that if they could not defend themselves they were bound to be conquered, the other argued that if rebellions happened everywhere they would have no need to defend themselves.

Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.

And from then on he adopted the maxim, “Napoleon is always right,” in addition to his private motto of “I will work harder.”

“Bravery is not enough,” said Squealer. “Loyalty and obedience are more important.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?