Does anyone find it ironic that Tameside council’s cultural
services team is bringing Oldham Coliseum’s acclaimed production of “Animal
Farm” to Hyde?
May I suggest that the entire front few rows be reserved
for Kieran Quinn (Napoleon) and his long-standing tyrannical Labour
councillors, so they can see first-hand how a society deteriorates when ruled
by dictatorship and an autocratic regime?
In Animal Farm the pigs took advantage of a revolution. Tameside's 'pigs' were voted in which demonstrates the inferiority of the local electorate and, worse, the endemic apathy of the 75% who can't even be bothered to vote.
ReplyDeleteHow fitting that the champions on the downtrodden livestock who gave into luxury and turned into tyrants should see a play about socialist Labour councillors who claim to represent the working class growing fat while the working class suffer. I think I got that right anyway.
ReplyDeleteWhat a coincidence! I have just finished re-reading "Animal Farm". It repays the effort. To me the important lesson is that freedom is not lost in one instant, in one cataclysmic moment, but gradually. Each step is justified and apparently logical.
ReplyDeleteIt also shows how history is important. The Pigs control the history of the farm, revolution etc and so are able to change the history (or the slogans/laws painted on the barn wall) to suit themselves
It is a theme Orwell expands on in "1984" where the 'hero' Winston Smith works in The Ministry of Truth destroying records, newspaper cuttings etc which could disprove the party's version of "The Truth".
I concur strongly with tonydj's perceptive and intelligent post. Orwell was a visionary and a true literary genius.
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