animal farm动物农场读后感英文

There’s no denying that Animal Farm is a great prophetic book with profound significance, as the described phenomenon successively happened in innumerable countries during the last century.

Upon finishing the book, I can’t help thinking about the big question for human beings- what leads to the animal farm’s tragedy, or to be more explicit, what is the contributor to the failure of the unprecedented experiment of democracy?

From my perspective, the most formidable enemy of the democracy is dictatorship. In the book, Napoleon defeat his political opponent, Snowball, by scheming plots. Then the dark era of his dictatorship dawns. As far as I’m concerned, dictatorship is an inevitable huge stone on the path leading to democracy. In Nazi times, Hitler reigned over almost the whole European and resorted to tyranny, but his dictatorship was doomed to death. To avert such crisis , it is imperative for the government to set up a supervisory system as lack of supervision is undoubtedly a trigger to it.

Additionally, exploitation play a central part in the tragedy. The blindly faithful animals are dedicated to the farm pursuing a better life with ample food, but the sweet dream is shattered as they end up in poverty or even death. On the contrary, Napoleon lives a luxurious life which reminds me of the sharp comparison between the landlord and farmer classes in feudal society. Unfortunately, those oppressed animals even don’t perceive their situation, because Napoleon disguise himself as a revolutioner on behalf of the masses. And so it is with the FOXCONN’s suicide case. The bloody and brutal exploitation lies under the veil of a fabulous promise-high pay for extra working hour. And people don’t realize it until the irrevocable tragedy happens.

Furthermore, the notorious corruption matters in the case. As Acton put it,”power tends to corruption, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” when Napoleon becomes the leader of the farm, he betrays his claimed seven commandments day by day and converts to a disciple of posy life at the price of others’ unbearable labor. This kind of switch is not uncommon today while the most exemplary one occurs in the governmental system. Even though some of the civil servants are righteous as a green hand, they may be quickly assimilated by the corrupt system for everyone must comply with the life principle in order to survive and rise.

Last but not least, it is ignorance and folly that plant the seed of the tragedy. Whenever a social change happens, there must be a great man with foresight who can wake the ignorant masses in the total darkness, just like Marx. However, Napoleon takes the obscurantism to stable and prolong his governess. What makes matters worse is that the animals just obtain physiological needs, so they can hardly jump to the advanced stage-having self-consciousness, to fight for their deserved equal rights. A thought-provoking lesson we can benefit from here is that raising one’s self-awareness is of great significance to propel the democratic development, and education is the key to it. Once being well-educated and erudite, one can have an enormous ego and pluck up courage to talk out one’s own inner voice, which will do a big favor to better the governmental system and in turn benefit oneself.

To look at the book in a different light, it is a primer of democracy and can kindle a fire of freedom and self-awareness in one’s heart.朱歆琦

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