Portrayal of Political Allegory and Characterization in George Orwell’sNovels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Fou r

Abstract

This study aims to portray the political Allegory and Characterization in George Orwell's novels “Animal Farm” and Nineteen Eighty-four” using the critical analytic method. By relying on some selected texts in collecting the data and previous studies as secondary resources written on both novels, the study revealed that “Animal Farm” and “Nineteen Eighty-four” novels have a timeless feature that is still corresponding to real scenarios occurring in different parts of the world. The most obvious qualities of Orwell’s novels are that they can be full of timeless characters for the past and future readers as they unveil all sorts of corruption and tyranny masked by different political regimes that ruled their people with an iron fist. Furthermore, Orwell’s novels disclosed the truth of revolutions on how they begin with the slogan of reforms and how they finally go astray of achieving the goals that the revolutionists sacrificed for. Finally, the study recommends that further studies must be conducted to explore the artistic values of Orwell’s novels such as the theme of colonization and racial discrimination, empathy with animals, the figurative language, the rhetorical images, and the esthetic contents.