The original title of the book was Animal Farm: A Fairy Tale, but the subtitle was dropped by the US publishers for its 1946 publication and subsequently all but one of the translations during Orwell’s lifetime omitted the addtion. It is said that the day when Animal Farm published, Geroge Owell, the author，went to the bookstore and downloaded his work from fairy tale shelves to the shelves for adult. Publishers and store owners refered the book to a fairy tale but not a realistic novel. However, Owell himself beliveed his work should be place in an more important state, receive more attention, and give more understanding. His dream finally come true.

       The story goes on like this: on the Manor Farm,the old boar Old Major calls on the farm for a meeting, he advocates animals to rebel against the owner and make a regime of their own. The animals are inspired, they follow Old Major sing the revolutionary song: “ Beasts of England”. However, before Old Major make any outline for the revolution, he dies. And then, two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon assume command and turn his dream into reality, the animals revolt and drive the owner Mr. Jones from the farm, they rename it “ Animal Farm”. The Seven Commandments of Animalism are written on the wall of a barn, which symbolified the animals desire to build a equal and free kindom. However,the pigs elevate themselves to be leaders and whatever they used are superior than other animals. Mr. Jones tries to take back his farm, while the animals defeat him and name the battle “Battle of the Coeshed”. Napoleon and Snowball struggle for the leadership. Snowball propose to bulild a windmill, but meet the oppose of Napoleon, who chase him away. Therefore, Napoleon declares himself as the leaderand makes changes: no longer meetings,but a committee of pigs run the farm. The animals work hard to bulid the windmill, they meet many difficulties but never give up. Napoleon become such tyrant, in order to reach his goal, many wicked measures are taken. Thus, the animals suffer even more miseries than before, however, they never realize it, even they do, they come to the barn, only find the commendments on it chang into the will of Napoleon. In their deep mind, they firmly believe they live better. Napoleon rule theAnimal Farm in a way even more cruel than Mr. Jones, he even makes deal with human beings. Worse ever, the pigs learn to walk upright, carry whips and wear clothes. The Seven Commandments are reduced into the single one: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. The animals realize that the faces of the pigs looks like the faces of humans and no one can tell the difference between them.

     Indeed, the Animal Farm gives me a lot of thinking. After read it , I felt lost. When I recalled the plot, I always felt sorry for the innocent animals. At first, I was shocked at the fast speed of their victory, but later I realized that, fast triumph never last long, only those mature plan and organization could lead to the way of success. The animal farm failed, because they adopt wrong rules, the dictator—Napoleon, he was such a selfish and greedy pig longing for power, he dominate the farm in a totalitarianism way that he didn’t discuss with the animals, if he wanted it , he commanded Squealer to spread his will, and in order to satisfied his lure, he put false sentence on Snowball, killed hens and sheeps, made deal with men and even imitate humans walking… The tragedy happens not only due to Napoleon’s totalitarianism,but also lies in the animals foolishness. When Snowball tried to teach them reading and writing, few of them made it. Most of them thought it is too difficult that they give up soon. When they wanted to check Seven Commandments, they had to turn to Clover or Benjamin for answers. And when Boxer was being sold, they couldn’t recognise the word on the cargo, but believe in lies made by Napoleon, when they finally realized it, they couldn’t save Boxer’s life any more. Boxer, the horse who work so hard to build their ideal kindom all his life,died, helplessly and sorrowly. I keep thinking of the terrible scene, Boxer’s struggle was so weak, he didn’t realize that no matter how hard he worked, a piece of strength always fail at the foot of unity. Boxer’s tragedy also tells me, at the press of tyrany, integrity and moral fade away like dust in the air.

    To me, Animal Farm never comes into my mind in the formation of fairy tale, bitter ironies and personification contribute to the development of the story, which also help us realize the darkness in our own society—animal farm not exist in the animal world, but also in men’s nation, what’s more, perhaps even worse than the animals’.