The Notion of a Symbolic Reading of Orwell’s "Animal Farm" Inconsistency of "The End of History" by Francis Fukuyama

Al Tayeb Al Nasri Mohammed Ahmed Abu al Ghasim

Abstract


This paper is limited to one author, namely George Orwell and his novel "Animal Farm" (1945), it discusses the appeal of communism, the state of totalitarianism and the central moment of unfolding its precarious inheritance, through a symbolic acts of the animals as a cautionary and archetype of human political behavior. In this sense Orwell expresses the event following the Russian Revolution and the slow stages through which a system of tyranny was established under Stalin. In this notion Orwell decides to monitor Karl Marx on his prediction of communism that would displace capitalism. Inconsistency, Fukuyama's position contradicts these ideas in his essay "The End of the History" (1992), that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government. A symbolic Textuality is a significant methodology as a discourse analysis that is used her as an anatomy of the temptation of political contradiction that fall as quarries of tyranny. The paper concludes that the novel warns people against consequences of oppression in awaken of violent revolutions. In the end this paper affirms hegemony of capitalism ambitious system together with globalization and increasing demands for transparency and fair governance.


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novel, revolution, communism, democratic, totalitarianism, tyranny

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