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[Jack]

I agree with Dr Hakim that Animal Farm is about the human dilemma which unfolds itself in a way that gives the impression that nothing could be done about it. All we can do is wait for a miracle that most probably will not happen.

[Jack]

I read the novel three times and I came to the same conclusion as the commentator.

[Ricahrd Vieth]

I think the commentator is right in that the book could be interpreted on different levels. It is much more than a fable on the Communist Revolution in Russia. I think it is a story that characterizes the human condition at all times.

[Kaitlin]

I believe you are taking a book about communism and trying to place that role on all of society. I strongly dislike that idea. And please don't play the "Mean Politician" card. It makes you look ignorant and makes you sound like a tree hugging hippie. I sincerly hope you are not offended by what I am saying, but the truth hurts.

[Rouge]

I am a heavy reader, give me a book and if I find it captivating enoff, 48 hours minimum befor I have completed it, I usually forget much of what i read after a couple of new books have been completed, but animal farm has stayed with me for ages, and I must agree with you on your comment,<br><br>Rouge<br><br>P.S: WTF? Dr Ziad Hakim? Di'Avit...

[PK]

i agree partially with this comment however i think that the farms situation under the pigs control was significantly worse than under Jones. i think that although people have a tendancy to be power hungry like the pigs, and that this is in a way a cycle that could occur in any place, it is much more likly to occur to such an extream sence under communism. therefore this situation is a direct result of communism, not just human nature.

[Dr Ziad Hakim]

Of all the books I read in my teen years, Animal Farm was the most influential and memorable--never trust politicians, and by extension anybody, who sell dreams to others to achieve political ends. First I read it as a story for children, then accepted my English teacher's interpretation that the book was about the Soviet Revolution. I kept referring to the book in later years, and now I tend to understand it in a wider human context. The book is about the human situation in all countries and under all political and economical schemes, including socialist and capitalist systems. Human nature is not to be trusted. Anybody could develop in the same way as Mr Jones or Napoleon. Jones and Napoleon set the standard for their behavior and choose to be above the law. How can we control people like that? The human condition seems to be uncontrollable and almost nothing can be done about it. The pigs at the end of Animan Farm do exactly what Jones does at the beginning. Then another Napoleon will appear and fill the imagination of other animals with dreams that can never come true and then end up becoming a dictator, and so on and so forth. The human condition seems to be moving in cycles. And this is the existential plight that we have to put up with and endure.