Animal Farm as a Political Satire to Criticise Totalitarian Regimes Ess

puppet elicit as a Political jeering to Criticise Totalitarian Regimes This study aims to determine that George Orwells Animal Farm is a political satire which was written to criticise totalitarian regimes and particularly Stalins practices in Russia. In order to provide background information that would reveal causes lead Orwell to write Animal Farm, Chapter ane is inclined to a brief stocky of the progress of authors career and significant events that had impact on his political convictions. Chapter one also presents background information close Animal Farm. Chapter two is devoted to satire. In this chapter, definition of satire is presented and many important characteristics of satire atomic number 18 discussed. In chapter three, the method of this research is described. Under the fire up of information presented in the previous chapters, Chapter four discusses Animal Farm and focuses on the book as a political satire. The last chapter presents the conclusion of this study.< showcase size=3>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI would first like to express my sincere thanks to my thesis supervisor, Assoc.Prof. Dr. Jashua M. accommodate for his help and freedom he gave me in this study. Without his meeting this thesis would never have been completed.I also wish to thank my sister Fidan Korkut for her suggestions in the plan stage of this study and her endurance during my long study days at home.My special thanks go to zgr Ceylan, who constantly granted me her moralistic support. She was always there when I needed her.<font face=3>THE AUTHOR GEORGE ORWELLPresentationThis chapter introduces general information about George Orwells life. It includes chronological progress of his life and his political convictions. Furthermore, important events, such as The Russian Revolution and The Spanish Civil War which had significant influence on his commitment to write Animal Farm will be discussed. Lastly, general information about Animal Farm will be given.His LifeTh e British author George Orwell, penitentiary name of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in Motihari, India, June 25, 1903. His father was an important British obliging servant in India, which was then part of the British Empire. A hardly a(prenominal) years aft(prenominal) Eric was born, he retired on a low reward and moved back to England. Though their income was not much enough, the Blair family sent their watchword away to boarding school which was an exclusive p... ...ed from primary and secondary sources.<font size=3>ANIMAL FARM AS SATIREPresentationIn this chapter, under the light of information given in the chapter-1 and chapter-2, Animal Farm will be examined. It aims at to show the elements of satire in Animal Farm, and to compare characters, events and some elements of Animal Farm and The Russian Revolution Elements of Satire In Animal FarmOrwell, as quoted before, clearly explains that his main purpose for writing Animal Farm was to write a satire on the Russian Revolu tion (In Shelden, 1991, p.399). by dint of animal satire, Orwell attacks on the Stalins practices in Russia and in wider scope, on totalitarian regimes. winning Bozkurts (1977) classification into consideration, Animal Farm would be said to be a Juvenial satire. Since, it is clearly seen that Orwell bitterly criticise Russian Communism and Stalin.Summary of The PlotOne night after Farmer Jones has gone to bed drunk, all the animals of Manor Farm mate in the barn for a meeting. Old Major, the prize Middle albumin boar, wants to tell them about a strange dream he had. First, he narrate the nature of life as he has come to understand it. Animals, though work very hard.