Political Satire in George Orwell’s Animal Farm

Abstract

This research entitled "Political Satire in George Orwell's Animal Farm" explores the political situation of Russia. This study focuses on Orwell's novel from the perspective of political satire. The novel satirically illustrates the abuse of power and highlights the problem of people in political arena. Particularly, this research tries to explorethe novel as satirical reference to the abuse of power by the so called leaders of the Russian Communism. In this research I have tried to relate the novel with the political satire. By comparing animals with humans Orwell satirizes the contemporary world of politics and this research too is based on the political perspective of the novel. This study pores that the novel 'Animal Farm' is full of political satires because all the characters of this novel resemble the leaders and common people of that time. So, I applied political satire as the methodology of my study. From this study it can be concluded that through Satire in the novel Orwell is able to speak out against Russian communism. The novel is written in an excellent manner and proves to be a successful satire. The study too concludes that power corrupts absolutely. The corrupt nature of people and misuse of power misleads the country and people.