Document Type : Original Article
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PhD Student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
Abstract
Polulism is a component, which is mentioned in social sciences and politics. It emphasizes on the centrality of the peoples role and public will, withe the slogan of defending their lost rights against the predominant intellectual class. This action has influenced on authors minds and writings in the field of Fiction, in different ways. Populism has positive features, but in most cases, because of the some deviations, takes on a completely negative face, to the extent that, this contradictory feedback is considered as the real features of Populism. Animal Farm by George Orwell is one of the bright manifestations of populistic social system in the field of Fiction, in which, the writer has modeled a democratic movement with a populistic face, by using Fabula (Fable) format and visualizing of simbolic animal features.In this analytical--comprative essay, the features of Populism in Animal Farm story are cosidered and their existance is proved. In addition, the procedure of changing of the feature functions and also modeling from a Populistic revolution is considered and explained.The results inducate that this story, visualizes a Populistic system in which, the positive Populism features , over time, turn into negative
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