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Research paper thumbnail of ‘And Do As You Are Told’: A Literary Comparison Between George Orwell’s Animal Farm And Roger Waters’ Lyrics In Animals On The View Of A Totalitarian Mindset

TRABAJO FIN DE GRADO (TFG) Grado en Estudios Ingleses, 2022

This paper intends to critically approach totalitarian mentalities through a literary analysis. T... more This paper intends to critically approach totalitarian mentalities through a literary analysis. To do so, the novel Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell will be used. Firstly, it will be argued that the drive for power is both a fundamental cause of totalitarianism and its main tool to maintain it. In the examination of ‘power’, this approach will be supported by Louis Althusser’s hypothesis on ideology, which is found in his work entitled On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1968). On the other hand, it will be argued that a George Orwell’s oriented contemporary narrative can be found in the lyrics from Pink Floyd’s album Animals (1977) (Svitavský 37-38). Thus, this research will highlight intertextual commonalities between the lyrics written by the
well-known author Roger Waters and Orwell’s Animal Farm. The representative dimension of animals in the context of totalitarian mindsets will also be discussed. Finally, in the last section, within the frame of Ernst Bloch’s The Principle of Hope (1954) and examining the possibility of a counternarrative against totalitarianism, the main difference between Orwell’s and Water ‘s attitude towards hope will be underscored.

Research paper thumbnail of ‘And Do As You Are Told’: A Literary Comparison Between George Orwell’s Animal Farm And Roger Waters’ Lyrics In Animals On The View Of A Totalitarian Mindset

TRABAJO FIN DE GRADO (TFG) Grado en Estudios Ingleses, 2022

This paper intends to critically approach totalitarian mentalities through a literary analysis. T... more This paper intends to critically approach totalitarian mentalities through a literary analysis. To do so, the novel Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell will be used. Firstly, it will be argued that the drive for power is both a fundamental cause of totalitarianism and its main tool to maintain it. In the examination of ‘power’, this approach will be supported by Louis Althusser’s hypothesis on ideology, which is found in his work entitled On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1968). On the other hand, it will be argued that a George Orwell’s oriented contemporary narrative can be found in the lyrics from Pink Floyd’s album Animals (1977) (Svitavský 37-38). Thus, this research will highlight intertextual commonalities between the lyrics written by the
well-known author Roger Waters and Orwell’s Animal Farm. The representative dimension of animals in the context of totalitarian mindsets will also be discussed. Finally, in the last section, within the frame of Ernst Bloch’s The Principle of Hope (1954) and examining the possibility of a counternarrative against totalitarianism, the main difference between Orwell’s and Water ‘s attitude towards hope will be underscored.

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