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Animal Farm;
Changes From the Novel To the Film

One of the most drastic changes that is displayed in going from the book Animal Farm, to the movie is that Animal Farm was written for the sophisticated intellectuals of society, while the movie was made predominantly for the uneducated working class. Animal Farm, written by Eric Blair (George Orwell), carries a dark political message about the politics in Russia and the politics of the world and Orwell disguises it under a shield of a supposed children's fairy story. What is so unique about the novel is that it is an allegory, and the animals of Animal Farm all represent different political and social figures in the time frame of 19-1960.

George Orwell was an author who was in total opposition of the socialistic party, because of this he deeply respected all who rejected the ideas of communism. Orwell wrote Animal Farm in the 1940's, when the populace was genuinely tired of all the political literature already published. Orwell envisioned his audience as people who were culturally aware of the political differences seen in society. Thus, the narrator of the book was a relatively stupid farm animal, and the readers of the book were left to figure out for themselves of "Napoleon's" conspiracy. In the movie, the director had concluded that the general movie audience would consist of people who had absolutely no idea of the historical definition and allegories of Animal Farm. As the book was written in 1943, and the movie made in 1999, some obvious cultural differences would prevail.
The narrator in the movie was "Jessie", an intellectual member of society disguised as a dog. This made the movie much easier to understand, as Jessie would explain that "Nght that in many ways, humans in the political world are like animals. Animals have no sense of individuality, nor morals and humans who believe in communism are much the same. Yet because the director of the film happens to be in the entertainment business, which is a highly political field where one is always told what rules to obey, his view on Orwell's theories were quite different. The director wanted to make humans seem a tad bit smarter than animals, so he delicately made the animals appear to have more morals than humans. By showing this fact on the big screen, it seems that the director wanted to say that naivism is an animalistic trait and that realism is what the "real world" was about. As George Orwell was slightly nave when it came to human nature, the film director managed to both show his audiences the meaning of Animal Farm, and simultaneously make humans seem superior to animals. This is the law of nature. When one man does something great, one man always feels that he has to do it better.
Animal Farm remains a historical classic that was written by a man who wanted to support the people of his generation. Now this book is being analyzed by the teenagers of our generation. The director of the film in our generation was also a George Orwell in many ways, they both depicted a very human and controversial message through amusing farm creatures.

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