Democracy seems as powerful as ever: The courts “on an island in the Pacific” effortlessly tie up Trump’s immigration orders and the ratings on late night television’s anti-Trump rants are through the roof. There is no sign that there is or will be any effective thought control or political repression as described in 1984. Yet, Animal Farm is much subtler-and more powerful-than 1984 or the improbable Handmaid’s Tale. As in 1984, he imagines a harsh political landscape.
A much more relevant work is Orwell’s 1945 novella Animal Farm. Almost everyone is having fun with the comparison.īut these are the wrong books to read and shows to watch. Part of the marketing plan is to make the story an allegory to the Trump administration. Already released as a film (with the screenplay by Harold Pinter), the book has now reappeared as a miniseries on Hulu. In her 1985 book, the powerful have reduced fertile women to reproductive slaves for the elite’s infertile wives. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Taleis also getting a second wind. There have been countless media references to the novel, including Paul Krugman’s op-ed in The New York Times on May 8, “Party Like It’s 1984.” This summer, a 1984 play from London is opening on Broadway, co-produced by none other than Scott Rudin. Published in 1949, the dystopian novel predicts a world of authoritarian thought control, and it shot to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list. Joern Pollex/Getty Imagesįollowing President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Left’s must-read book was George Orwell’s 1984. George Orwell’s Animal Farm depicts a farm run by a collective leadership of pigs.
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