I read Anthem on the prompting of a friend, and I was blown away. You can see a certain anti-communism to the work, of course...as with most satire and otherwise politically motivated novels from that era. ((Fahrenheit 451 is terribly Anti-communist, not it is a bad thing, but very very stark. I would gather that these books have been used by a number of people to develop political ideology.))
Animal Farm, I remember crying for the horse, and eventually for a number of the other characters. That is another book I should reread, as I can recall the roles the characters played (Horse=Common folk), I can't remember the names of the pigs. Snowball (I googled the name I wanted) was a sad character, though. Even as a pig, you felt he meant something good, and that the nature of power ultimately corrupted those around him. So that while he was pure to his beliefs, his good was nothing more than a red bloodstain on the snow.
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Date: 2009-02-09 11:39 pm (UTC)Animal Farm, I remember crying for the horse, and eventually for a number of the other characters. That is another book I should reread, as I can recall the roles the characters played (Horse=Common folk), I can't remember the names of the pigs. Snowball (I googled the name I wanted) was a sad character, though. Even as a pig, you felt he meant something good, and that the nature of power ultimately corrupted those around him. So that while he was pure to his beliefs, his good was nothing more than a red bloodstain on the snow.
Very sad book.