ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Themes and motifs such as censorship, freedom, and propaganda are prevalent throughout the novel and explored through the suspense of Big Brother’s control and motives. Orwell’s use of language defines what it means to be a citizen of Oceania and its threats to individuality and freedom.

Detailed explanation-2: -As a self-described democratic socialist, Orwell believed in active government, yet his alertness to the excesses of official power informed Animal Farm and 1984, his two masterpieces about totalitarianism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Orwell and his Themes “Throughout his novels, documentaries, essays and journalism Orwell relentlessly and uncompromisingly criticised imperialism, nationalism, capitalism, political dishonesty, power, totalitarianism, privilege and private education.” (Political Ideas of George Orwell, n.d.).

Detailed explanation-4: -The grand theme of Animal Farm has to do with the capacity for ordinary individuals to continue to believe in a revolution that has been utterly betrayed. Orwell attempts to reveal how those in power-Napoleon and his fellow pigs-pervert the democratic promise of the revolution.