A Fable About A Fictional World And The Culture Of The Real Power

This thesis parallely analyses two novels of George Owell,i.e.《Animal Farm》 and 《1984》from the literay theory of cultral identity to explore the zigzag course how Jeorge Owell searches for his political identity by means of character expression, to analyse the factors which effect the construction of identity and to find out the obstacles in constrcting democratic identity. Chapter one mainly analyses Owell’s novel《Animal Farm》 longitudinally. Section one discusses the reasons of Owell’s writing and points out the possibility and the necessity which the quiet animal farm changes into a noisy one from Owell’s own experiences and his own democratic consciousness. Section two explores the extended process when "exploitation"is symbolyzed from Derrida’s deconstructionist’s view reflecting Owell’s opinion of antiessentialism. Section three illustrates the great importances which discourse, knowledge and power play in identity construction.In his novel 《Animal Farm》,Owell transfers the discourse right to animals,breaking the situation of human centralization. By means of Michel Foucault’s theory and Holzer’s "code/decode"theory,this paper verifies that it is the knowledge that determines various centralized rules and that it is by means of knowledge that all these centralized rules are managed, hence proving the great importance that dicourse has in identity constructing. Chapter two is mainly concerned with Owell’s political prophetic novel 《1984》. In Section one, I mainly analyse the meaning of the title of the novel and the background of the novel and I interpret Owell’s identity opinion of historicalism by using cultral identity theory. Section two contrasts the identity similarities and their toutual courses between Winston,the main character in the novel and Owell himself. Section two mainly uses Jacques Lacon’s psychoannalysis analysing the "cold"political attitude between Winston and Owell. In section four, from the perspective of cultural visual, I explore the obstals Winston and Owell encountered in constructing new identity, showing the "controled"and "admonited"effects which are played by the two kinds of public cultures i.e."monitoring"and "gazing". Chapter three is the conlusion of the thesis,giving some of my own suggetions in the study of Owell’s works.