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Orwell Predicting Mugabe in Zimbabwe

06/23/06 - 10:53:57 am
Categories: Zimbabwe, Politics, Book Review

I have been reading Animal Farm by George Orwell lately. I don't think I would have picked it up if it wasn't free, but it is a fantastic book thus far. I usually tool through one chapter a day, but it could be read in a short afternoon.

Orwell narrates a story of an animal overthrow, giving the slave-driving humans the boot. This utopian paradise has its political issues and Orwell does a fantastic job explicating them in a humorous but cynical manner.

I am at a part now where the rebellion has become history and the animals have held their farm for some time. A dictatorship of some-sorts has emerged. Then I read this article from the BBC and it sounded vaguely familiar - oh, that sounds just like the chapter in Orwell's book that I read about an hour an a half ago.

Apparently Orwell was a socialist with a strong distaste for communism and a critical eye against capitalism. The political situations that have occurred in Animal Farm thus far have all been negative portrayals, conotating an incredible distaste for power and leadership. With people like Mugabe, it is no wonder why Orwell would have saw it like this.

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animal farm is actual an allegory of the russian revelution

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Comment from: Kevin [Member]

Thanks Em. I appreciate the historical info regarding Animal Farm. It is the greatness of the allegory that can tranfer to multiple situations, such as that of Mugabe in Zimbabwe.

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