/lit/ - Literature

>>18147637
It's true, they're fucking attention whores and that comes from a retard with a gf. I gave her Orwell's collection and its been a year and the retard hasn't finished anything but Animal Farm. Oh but pics? She has filled her social networks with them, the little bitch.

How in the world did the same man that wrote 1984 also unironically write this seething piece of propagandist trash?

>>Mr Jones
>>Napoleon

>>9453491
>must read

>>9367003
>implying it isn't this

>mfw right wingers use Orwell's criticism of virtue signalling leftists as their own
He would only have bullets for them, not strongly worded essays

Can we discuss this timeless classic along with the pitfalls of communist regimes ?

Some animals go a little WEE WOO

Animal Farm is actually a far superior book to 1984. It has virtually all the same ideas, but expresses them in a more concise, simplistic and articulate manner. All the famous concepts from 1984 are here - doublethink, manipulating memory/the past, being at war with an ambiguous enemy, putting all their resources in a useless project (in 1984 its the war, in animal farm its the windmill)

what purpose does 1984 even serve?

Post 'em

Was Orwell one of those
>b-b-but its never been tried
kind of person?
He seems to praise Marx/Lenin in the form of Old Major in Animal farm. He even presents Trotsky favourably in Snowball and Goldstein in 1984. Its obvious he is critical of Stalinism in both 1984 and Animal Farm.

Was Orwell a Marxist or Trotskyite or did he just sympathise with Marx?
Also general Orwell thread

you shouldn't give responsibility to pigs

What are some themes I should know about? I haven't read it *yet.* But I will.

So I have to read this book for school. What should I know about its themes? P.S. my teachers's a fascist.

you are tasked with teaching a 12th grade reading class made up of students with a low reading level but a desire to get better.

What do you make them read throughout the year to keep them interested in literature?

this book is so good

well this was fun

actually sad but still fun to read

Not bad, just completely uninteresting.

FUCK

>>6428021
this heap of shit right here

What should I read before reading this book? I know that it's an allegorical and dystopian novella about the URSS but I do not know much about that. I recently bought Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution but I think that I'm gonna need to know what happened long after the revolution (Stalin)

>>6070508
Everything "clever" about this is obvious and beaten to death

This book taught me to think for myself from a very young age.

I just finished reading "Animal Farm" by George Orwell.

I understood the concept of the book, i understand why this book is considered on of the best books of all time by many "top 100 books" lists.


But IMO, it's kinda meh.