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[Young Reader]

As a thirteen year old ther are many things that do not strike me as interesting..as for this...it was quite amazing how you had written it. It helped me look at the different meaning of Animal Farm and that Animal Farm was a novel that was quite significant to out history.

[Unregistered]

I like the way you think, you seem to have a fair view. However you need a different approach when explaining things. I enjoy the way you quote from the novel to try and prove a point "once you allow totalitarianism, you will likely be stuck with it forever." Very elegant.

[Sarah Measday]

You state: "Film adaptation was a faithful rendition of Orwell's original work, but watered in the end the satire, and presented a socialist viewpoint: the system is good, but the individuals are corruptible."<br>This is not a socialist viewpoint. I am a socialist (and biographies I've read of Orwell have painted him as one also). I personally think Animal Farm is one of the most important works of human history, and the failing point of the animated film (the TNT adaptation was just crap on oh so many levels) is that it presents a happy ending where the people are victorious, whereas the novel gives the much more important warning that once you allow totalitarianism, you will likely be stuck with it forever. And since you clearly don't know the difference between socialism and communism, here it is: communism calls for a revolution followed by a dictatorship which will magically give way to an egalitarian utopia without government; socialism advocates working democratically to change the system and acknowledges that an egalitarian utopia without government would be sweet indeed. Obviously, socialism (a democratic ideology) cannot have the view that communism (by nature totalitarian) is okay under any circumstances.