GOBI ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

FIRST DOCTOAL COMMITTEE

MEETING

DATE: 28.07.2023
 Research Scholar:

V. Poongodi
Department of English
Gobi Arts and Science College
Research Supervisor: Senior Faculty: Subject Expert:
Dr. S. Santhi, Dr. P. Karthi Dr. S. Sudha,
Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor,
Department of English, Department of English, Department of English,
Gobi Arts and Science College(UA) Gobi Arts and Science College Dr. NGP Arts and Science College,
Coimbatore
SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVES
ON POLITICAL INJUSTICE
IN GEORGE ORWELL’S
SELECT NOVELS
 OBJECTIVES
• To explore the political injustice in the novels of George Orwell

• To Study individual freedom, human dignity and democracy

• To insist the totalitarianism and communism or oppressive forces of society

• To Emphasis the importance of free thought and independent thought

• To Emphasis the ordinary individual to believe in revolution that has been

utterly betrayed

• To criticise the evil side of colonialism

• To examine the dangers of totalitarian rule.

 CHAPTERS DIVISION
• Chapter I: Satire on Communism in Animal Farm
• Chapter II: Totalitarianism in Nineteen Eighty Four
• Chapter III: Imperialism as cause of poverty in The
Road to Wigan Pier
• Chapter IV: Socialism as Solution of Working Clause
in Keep the Aspidistra Flying
• Chapter V: Capitalism in Burmese Days
AUTHOR: GEORGE ORWELL
• His original name- Eric Arthur Blair
• Pen name- George Orwell
• Birth- 25th June, 1903, Bengal of British India
• Novelist, Essayist, Journalist and Critic
• Writing Career started in 1927
• Themes: Anti-fascism, Anti- Stalinism, Democratic Socialism
• Pen name- an inspiration of a river named ‘Orwell’
• He considered himself as a socialist
• Worked as a journalist in Second World War
• Badly wounded in Spanish Civil War
 WORKS
• Animal Farm (1945)
• 1984 (1949)
• Down and out Paris and London (1933)
• Burmese Days (1934)
• The Road to Wigan Pier (1936)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
• Coming up for Air (1939)
• A Clergyman’s Daughter (1935)
• The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)
 AWARDS
• Retro Hugo Award for Animal for as the best
novella in 1996
• Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 2011
 NOVELS CHOSEN FOR STUDY
 Animal Farm (1945)

 1984 (1949)

 The Road to Wigan Pier (1936)

 Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)

 Burmese Days (1934)

 NOVEL BACKGROUND
ANIMAL FARM
• Anti utopian satire
• Published in 1945
• Political fable
• Based on The Russian revolution
• Manor Farm- Symbol of Soviet Union under
communist
 NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR
• It was written after World War II
• It is a dystopian novel
• The government control everything from
economy to language
• It is also known as a satirical novel
 THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER
• Published in 1937
• First half of this work documents of his
sociological investigations of bleak living
conditions of the working class
• It is a powerful account of poverty, deprivation
and low wages meager government support
 KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING

• Published in 1936
• Deals about rejecting money
• Aspidistra means a house plant which was
popular in Victorian England.
• It symbolises the middle class respectability
 BURMESE DAYS
• The novel serves as a portrait of the dark side
of the British Raj
• It criticize the imperialism and British Empire
• Colonialism brings out the worst in everyone
 THEORY: SOCIALISM
• Political philosophy and movement
• It is a wide range of economical and social systems
• Characterized by social ownership of production
and opposed to private ownership
• Socialism believe that more equal distribution of
goods and service
• It brings the equal society
• Production for use rather than profit
• It creates equality and provides security to workers
 CONCLUSION
• George Orwell was attracted by socialism
because he believed that it is a tool to end the
poverty
• He insists socialism represented justice and
fairness
 PUBLICATIONS
• ‘Animal Farm is a Political Satire by George
Orwell’- UGC Care List Group-I
• The Special Emphasis on Totalitarianism in
1984 by George Orwell- UGC Care List
• Symbolism in George Orwell’s Animal Farm