Abstract
Animal Farm was written by George Orwell in 1944 to criticize the Soviet Union leaders and their administration represented by animal characters. The objective of this study was to find out the resemblances between the character of Soviet Union leaders at the time the novel was written and those depicted in the novel. In analysing the objective of this study, content analysis was used. The data are the dialogues and other information in the novel concerning the metaphors of characters between the Soviet Union leaders of the 20th century and those in Animal Farm. The writer finds out that Jones metaphors Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russian Monarchy, Old Major with his speech metaphors Karl Marx with his Communist Manifesto, Napoleon as Stalin, Snowball as Trotsky, Squealer as Pravda, the Russian Newspaper at that time, Frederick as German and Boxer as the type of gullibility proletariat. Indeed, George Orwell’s timeless work reminds us that totalitarianism could be harmful to one society.
Highlights
George Orwell, a pen name for Eric Arthur Blair, was a British novelist, essayist and critic
This study only focuses on the governances carried out by Nicholas II and Stalin since Animal Farm only performs the animals‟ life under Jones‟ administration which resembled Nicholas II‟s governance and Napoleon‟s administration as a metaphor for Stalin‟s governance
The step was to classify the data of principal characters in Animal Farm, which were deemed to resemble the leaders of Soviet governance in the early of the 20th century
Summary
George Orwell, a pen name for Eric Arthur Blair, was a British novelist, essayist and critic. He was born in India in the nineteenth century (1903-1950), and grew up in a war and military atmosphere. He added that, “When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, „I am going to produce a work of art‟. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention and my initial concern is to get a hearing” I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention and my initial concern is to get a hearing” (p. 9)
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