LOOKING AT HUMAN, CULTURE AND THE CITY ACCOMPANIED BY ORWELLIAN DYSTOPIA
ORWELLYEN DİSTOPYA EŞLİĞİNDE İNSANA, KÜLTÜRE VE ŞEHRE BAKMAK

Author : Gökşen YILDIRIM
Number of pages : 152-165

Abstract

George Orwell, himself a socialist writer, presents both the Animal Farm (1944) and the 1984 (1949) novels to the reader the two successful novels of world literature, while making the critique of socialism on the axis of the drawbacks of totalitarianism. Orwell, who criticized the Stalin rule in Soviet Russia through the animals in an allegorical manner in Animal Farm, expanded his perspective and aimed at Hitler and Mussolini with Stalin in 1984. The Animal Farm's allegory is replaced by a strong dystopian fiction in the 1984 novel. In both novels, the impossibility of Utopia is emphasized and a counter-utopia is developed. Especially the 1984 novel is considered to be a very successful work among dystopian novels and is placed in a privileged place in world literature. In this study, we will examine the view of Orwell to human, culture and city within the framework of the 1984 novel and try to determine the general framework of Orwellian dystopia.

Keywords

Dystopia, utopia, George Orwell, human, culture, city.

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