Animal Farm
非常に読みやすかった。
動物の名前、動物のボディーパーツ、農具などの知らない単語がたくさん出てくる程度で、英文が訳せないような難しさはない。
前置詞＋関係代名詞が数多く出てくるのが印象的だった。
平等な社会を目指していたNapoleonが次第に権力と特権に溺れていき、最終的には仲間であったBoxerをknacker（廃馬畜殺業者）に送くるまで冷酷になってしまったのが一番の驚きだった。
勧善懲悪モノなら最後にsnowballが帰ってきて豚と犬を追っ払うんだろうけれども、これは寓話なのでスッキリした終わり方ではなかった。
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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.
締めの言葉。
動物たちは人間の隠喩だった…
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George Orwell's Animal Farm is a biting satire on the Russian revolution. Stalin is represented by the despotic Napoleon, Trotsky by the messianic Snowball, and the common citizen by the gullible and hard-working carthorse Boxer, whose two slogans are "I will work harder" and "Napoleon is always right." Orwell's profound insight into the stark reality of revolutionary Russia is unparalleled.
豚にだまされない知識、犬に負けない力がなければ権力者にいいように使われてしまう、という点ではどこのグループ、国にでも当てはまる。
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's timeless satire 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges. . . Animal Farm - the history of a revolution that went wrong - is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power.
