Orwell’s satiric tale eludes the curse of the animal fable.
.” But Mr. Orwell has worked out his theme with a simplicity, a wit, and a dryness that are closer to La Fontaine and Gay, and has written in a prose so plain and spare, so admirably proportioned to his purpose, that “Animal Farm” even seems very creditable if we compare it with Voltaire and Swift.Sign up for Classics, a twice-weekly newsletter featuring notable pieces from the past.
Mr. Orwell, before the war, was not widely known in America or even, I think, in England. He is one of several English writers who were only just beginning to be recognized in those years of confusion and tension and whose good work was obscured and impeded while the war was going on.
Only in the final one does the author let an emotion awake which causes one of them to lift his head out of the slough of brute inertia and self-interest. A lazy actor out of work, who has been living on the earnings of a waitress, has a sudden moral revelation as he realizes that his mistress is dying: “From now on,” he declares to himself, “my love will have direction and my life reason. To live will mean to fight.
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