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begins to fell sympathetic towards the animals on Animal Farm. In the movie, it is harder for the audience to feel as sympathetic as they may in the book because they don t know the characters very well. Animal Farms theme is very apparent at the end of the book. The theme is that it is impossible to attain a form of Utopia in which everyone is equal and treated fairly . This theme is further solidified by its usage of events which mirror those of the Russian revolution. The theme is fully realized right at the end of the book, when the rest of the animals are segregated from the pigs, who are in the former house of Mr. Jones, drinking alcohol with the humans. Just this one scenario blatantly defies everything the animals stood for when they first had the revolution, and the

reasons they had it in the first place. The ending of the book is so blunt that the point George Orwell is trying to make hits you like a ton of bricks, and you can truly see how flawed the animals were in their notions of living in a Utopia. From only watching the movie, I sincerely doubt that one would grasp the message that George Orwell was trying to send as fully as one would if he/she read the book. There are numerous reasons for this (only two of these are going to be mentioned as the others are either quite insignificant or they don t relate directly to the theme), one of the most significant of which is that a movie doesn t have a books capacity to pay attention to detail. This is very important in a book such as Animal Farm, fore, in order for one to get Orwell s

message, one has to be able to empathize with the animals at some level. The book explains in detail the harsh and unjust conditions of the other animals, making it easy to empathize with them, unlike the movie, which merely paints a scant picture of what the animals are going through. The other, more obvious reason for why one may get a different message from watching the movie is that the endings are completely different. As mentioned previously, it is the ending of the book that really drives Orwell s point home. In the movie, this isn t the case at all. At the end of the movie, animals all over the country come together and incite revolution once again, but this time it is against the pigs. They can t stand the conditions they have been subjected to and therefore decide to

rebel again, for the same principle as the first revolution against the humans. This confuses the audience with different possibilities for a theme. The theme may be that the quest for a Utopia is just a vicious cycle of revolutions, leading nowhere. The other is may be that one can never give up hope for a Utopia and must keep trying, even if it means more revolutions. In the book, there is no revolution against the pigs, the other animals are doomed to a life of misery, with no hope. I think that this would make the first theme the more acceptable one, but still not the same as the theme conveyed by George Orwell in the book. It s quite apparent that there are many significant differences between Animal Farm the book and it s film adaptation. There are a number of differences

between the use of characterization and the exposition, but the most important one is the difference in the theme. George Orwell s sole purpose in writing this book was to expose to the world Russia s mythical socialist utopia for what it really was, an oppressive regime in which the doctrines of socialist utopianism were completely disregarded. He wants the reader to know that the theory of a country in which everyone is equal, free and happy is but an illusion, a deception of reality, which is, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely . That once tainted with the feeling of power, most will stoop to any level, and do whatever the cost to maintain that power. In my opinion, this idea isn t properly presented in the movie and thus hinders the powerful message

that George Orwell was trying to send to people all over the world.