Animal Farm continued to be banned throughout the decades. According to the Encyclopedia of Censorship, Animal Farm is one of the "most often" censored books. The New York State English Council's Committee on Defenses Against Censorship found Animal Farm high on its list of "problem books" because "Orwell was a communist." (Nicholas J. Karolides, 1999)
George Orwell in the preface to the Signet Classics 29th edition (August 6, 1954), wrote "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism…Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness…,to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole." (Nicholas J. Karolides, 1999)
When people have lost meanings : the meaning of political systems, the meaning of history and why it is important, the meaning of racism and why it's history is important, the meaning of religious freedom and understanding it's history and why keeping state from religion is important , then we will continue to have banned books.
Nicholas J. Karolides, M. B. (1999). 100 Banned Books. New York: Checkmark Books.
Bibliography
Chinaski, B. (2007, Sept 18). Animal Farm. Retrieved Oct 15, 2007, from Banned Books Library: http://bannedbookslibrary.blogspot.com/2007/09/animal-farm.html
Nicholas J. Karolides, M. B. (1999). 100 Banned Books. New York: Checkmark Books.
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