Tuesday; Animal farm;

My Kitchen's Animal Farm;

Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland,

 Beasts of every land and clime,

 Hearken to my joyful tidings

 Of the Golden future time.

Soon or late the day is coming,

 Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown,

 And the fruitful fields of England

 Shall be trod by beasts alone.

Rings shall vanish from our noses,

 And the harness from our back,

 Bit and spur shall rust forever,

 Cruel whips no more shall crack.

Riches more than mind can picture,

 Wheat and barley, oats and hay,

 Clover, beans and mangel-wurzels

 Shall be ours upon that day.

Bright will shine the fields of England,

 Purer shall its waters be,

 Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes

 On the day that sets us free.

For that day we all must labour,

 Though we die before it break;

 Cows and horses, geese and turkeys,

 All must toil for freedom's sake.

Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland,

 Beasts of every land and clime,

George Orwell

Animal Farm is an allegorical novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, especially after his experiences with the NKVD and the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of 

personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as his novel "contre Stalin", and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), he wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he had tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".

The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, though the subtitle was dropped by U.S. publishers for its 1946 publication and subsequently all but one of the translations during Orwell's lifetime omitted it. Other variations in the title include: A Satire and A Contemporary Satire. Orwell suggested the title Union des républiques socialistes animales for the French translation, which recalled the French name of the Soviet Union, Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques, and which abbreviates to URSA, the Latin for "bear", a symbol of RussiaOrwell wrote the book from November 1943–February 1944, when the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union was at its height and Stalin was held in high esteem in Britain among the people and intelligentsia, a fact that Orwell hated. It was initially rejected by a number of British and American publishers.. Its publication was thus delayed, though it became a great commercial success when it did finally appear partly because the Cold War so quickly followed World War II.

The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders, but also the ways wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed, and myopia corrupt everything in a country. It portrays corrupt leadership as the flaw in revolution, rather than the act of revolution itself. It also shows how potential ignorance and indifference of the people to problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen if a smooth transition to a people's government is not achieved.

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