动物农场读书摘要

《动物农场（Animal Farm)》

的读书摘要

姓名：王笑怡

班级：商英131

学号：3130315017

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It briefly introduce the personalities of some main characters by illustrating their appearance and behaviors.

Boxer, an ordinary horse with a white stripe down his nose, giving him a somewhat stupid appearance, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work. He is like an honest and stout man.

Benjamin, a donkey, is the most oldest animal on the farm and the worst tempered, and what he said was usually cynical remark. He seems like the elder man with experience but is deeply pessimistic.

Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare, showing off the red ribbons, which is then be regarded as the disgrace given by human.

The Old Major, a majestic-looking pig, appears to be a wise man in the whole story, who is the original creator of this anti-human struggle. “all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human being? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labor would be our own.Almost overnight we could become rich and free. Furthermore, he put forward that “all the habits of Man are evil” and “all animals are equal”. It seems that he is right, and all beasts subscribe to his ambitious ideas, but few of them really figure out what will happen and what they should pay for this kind of perfect ending.

Chapter 2

Later the leader Old Major passed away, then three young boars Snowball, Napoleon and Squealer. These three had elaborated old Major’s teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they gave the name of Animalism. And for the later three months, they led the other animals to follow this rules and persuaded them into Rebellion to struggle for their freedom and richness.

But the Rebellion began with Mr.Jones over drunk and left the animals hungry. So the lack of material push them into struggle. Fortunately, they got triumph in a short time. They conquer the large farm and even write the Seven Commandments “on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away” to always warn all

animals in the farm.

But the author makes a foreshadowing in the last paragraph——the milk had disappeared.

In fact, few animal understand the real essence of the Rebellion and no one knows how to handle with the problems may appear later. So it seems that the milk and some silly questions raised by animals like”will there be sugar after Rebellion”and the rumor of Sugarcandy Mountain.

Chapter 3

At the beginning of this chapter, the animals lived in harmony and in order under the lead of the pigs. They work hard and make full use of their own capacity, especially Boxer, the loyalest one. “How they toiled and sweated to get the hay in!” But finally, their efforts were rewarded, for the harvest was an even bigger success than they had hoped. There was no wastage whatever, and not an animal on the farm had stolen so much as a mouthful.

However, there is still somebody shirked, like Mollie, the horse who admire for beauty, the mysterious cat. And Old Benjamin, the donkey never volunteer for extra work with a cryptic reason’ Donkeys live a long time, None of you has ever seen a dead donkey’. He haven’t show any opinion toward the Rebellion and even the seemed perfect results. Maybe he will actually foresee the ending and keep calm at every changing situation.

Snowball and Napoleon were never in agreement: whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted on to oppose it. The discrepancy in leaders is not always so good, it will finally break down the steady condition.

At last, what’s more, the pigs begin to ask for privilege: the milk and the windfall apples should be reserved for the pigs alone. Undoubtedly, privilege is the root of corruption and unfairness in equivalent civilians, here, is animals in the farm.

Chapter 4

The successful Rebellion obviously encourage other animals in English farms to