ILLITERACY AND PROPAGANDA MECHANISMS OF MANIPULATION AND INDOCTRINATION IN GEORGE ORWELLS ANIMAL FARM

This article explores the parallelism between George Orwells Animal Farm and the historical events that occurred when it was written, by using a New Historicist approach. A literary production is a pure product of its time and era, and Animal Farm is a clear allegory of the Russian Revolution, which began in 1917. In his dystopian novel, the revolution happened on a farm and was led by animals that wanted to break free from the tyranny of their owner. Ultimately, the leaders of that revolution ended up copying the same behavior as their former oppressor. This paper studies the different mechanisms used by those revolutionaries to establish the same dictatorship they once fought against.