31May 2016

POWER AND SOCIETY IN GEORGE ORWELL’S ANIMAL FARM.

  • Docteur, Spécialiste des Etudes Britanniques, Université d’Abomey - Calavi, Bénin.
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Centuries ago people lived in societies enjoying their lives one another. As a respective society can’t exist without certain norms, life in society requires the respect towards the others. Thus, appears the idea of government and governed people representing by the power and society. We notice that the society is sometimes victimized by the power. It results then the necessity of the existence of harmony between the government and the people. In this regard, it is compulsory to come out to the issue that some misunderstandings should be avoided in order to establish a peaceful atmosphere by exercising the power without abusing it. It is the bad governance, the question of embezzlement, the accumulation of wealth in the hand of the minority without sharing it with the whole population at any possible level which constitute the problematic of our work. The power often relies on the police at his disposal to influence or to deter anybody who attempts to have negative thought of the power. Instead of the police being at the service of the entire population, it is kept in the hands of the politics who use it at their ease to rag the people whenever necessary. This leads to the accumulation of frustration which paves the way to revolt. In fact, Animal Farm documents the trials and tribulations of a cycle of dictatorship under which the animals work. This form of government in Animal Farm is known as the totalitarianism ruling having control over the others. Therefore, there is abuse of power as the world has seen for decades. All these behaviours constitute fundamental problems inside and outside a given country thus creating great impacts on political, economical, social and cultural domains. In order to come out to this issue, I use historic method to explore the problematic of power and society. In writing this work, we expect that the politics should be aware that the society is expecting welfare so as to earn their living. To sum up there should have in a well functioning society a trust between both the government and their people. In this regard our main interest in writing this article is to focus on the problematic of power and society in Animal Farm from the general point of view.


[Franck Alabi MOUSTAPHA (2016); POWER AND SOCIETY IN GEORGE ORWELL’S ANIMAL FARM. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 4 (May). 1287-1295] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


MOUSTAPHA Alabi Franck


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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/572      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/572