Animal Farm
Orwell wrote the most perfect political allegory in English — a farm where the pigs take over and gradually become indistinguishable from the humans they replaced.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Why It Matters
Orwell wrote the most perfect political allegory in English — a farm where the pigs take over and gradually become indistinguishable from the humans they replaced. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" is the single most devastating sentence ever written about political corruption. The book can be read by a child and understood more deeply by an adult.
Notable Quotes
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”