Poor old George Orwell…

By literature - This FML is from back in 2014 but it's good stuff

Today, we are reading Animal Farm in class. Almost the entire class think it's about animal abuse. Including the teacher. FML
I agree, your life sucks 42 393
You deserved it 3 065

Top comments

Well animal abuse certainly happens in communist embodiments...

Comments

CaroAurelia 12

I'm pretty sure English teachers at large have no idea what the **** they're talking about and pull their analyses of books out of their asses. In my senior year we read Waiting For Godot and when I mentioned something the author had said about the meaning that contradicted what the teacher thought, she said words to the effect of "Well, that's one interpretation." Uh, yeah. That was THE AUTHOR'S interpretation.

malea_17 16

It's about the Russia. Revolution war... Isn't it? I read that book 7 years ago in 6th grade

It's about over throwing communism? I've not read it but that's the main gist of it, right?

it's an allegory of the failure of communism specifically Stalinism it shows the failure of communism combined with fascism from the start to the finish starting with socialism conforming to Leninism and then to Stalinism

Wow. That is sad. I'm reading that in my school as well, but our class at least knew what it was about. Stay strong comrade.

I remember that book! Interesting I can tell you that

everton99 16

So this is an instance where putting the right answer on the test is going to fail you. Wonderful.

Isn't that about the fall of the USSR or something like that? That should be read during world history...

It's an allegory of the Russian Revolution (written before the USSR collapsed) and how the system was distorted by Stalin. No, it's not about how communism cannot work, but rather about how an ideal was deformed into a monstrosity. George Orwell fought fascists and stalinists in Spain. His experiences in the Civil War and the brainwashing going on in England when the war started (in a time when everyone was lead to believe that Uncle Joe was a good guy) lead him to write the story that is a classic by now. Read his writings on Spain and the introduction to Animal Farm he wrote afterwards (namely how the stalinists deleted every copy of 10 Days that Shook the World and distributed half-assed versions that erased Lenin's prologue). Orwell was not an anticommunist, he was an antistalinist and Animal Farm was a form of expressing his sympathy for the original Leninism in the USSR and his despise for everything that Stalin turned it into.