Volume 8 Issue.4: 2021 Page No 22-36
TRIAD OF ABSOLUTE POWER - CORRUPTION - IDEOLOGY AS ENCODED IN ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM
Salim Kadhim Abass1*,
Sandaran, S-C.2, Aliakbar Imani3
1Department of English Language, college of Education,
University of Misan. Iraq.
*Corresponding author: Email: salimkadhim@graduate.utm.my
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4351-8649
2Language Academy, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
3Language Academy, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
UniversitiTeknologi Malaysia
Abstract
This study aims at determining the interconnection
of absolute power represented by a totalitarian regime and
corruption, and confirming the relationship of power and ideology as
encoded in George Orwell's novel Animal Farm. This study shows how
the misusing power and imposing ideology can lead to corruption, and
reshaping class and identity, and creation of dystopian society
inside the text. As a qualitative study, this study adopts thematic
analysis to investigate the concepts that it focuses on, in addition
to textual analysis of the text by employing Marxist Criticism and
Critical Discourse Analysis as analytical approaches. The findings
of the current study indicate that absolute power practices are
interconnected with corruption, and those who are in power impose
their ideology upon the society to retain power through manipulation
in language and discourse. It is hoped that the study will provide
better understanding of the interconnection of absolute power and
corruption as a missing feature in literature on this novel. It
contributes to extending the base of knowledge and enriches the
literature on this novel in particular, and the field of the
political English novels in general.
Keywords: absolute power, corruption, ideology, class, George Orwell and Animal Farm.
