George Orwell’s Misogyny-A Feminist Interpretation of Animal Farm  

作　　者：WANG Xinyue 

机构地区：[1]University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,Shanghai,China

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2021年第6期153-157,共5页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：George Orwell, formerly known as Eric Arthur Blair, was one of the greatest English novelists, essayists, and critics of the 20th century. Animal Farm is the most famous political allegorical novel in the world. The most discussed topics about this novel are totalitarianism and utopia, and few people discuss this novel full of male color from the perspective of women. As a male-oriented novel, people can clearly feel that the female images in the novel are mostly negative, ignorant, obedient and enjoying the cozy life, and the female images created are mostly with the subjective color of the writer. Behind this phenomenon is the discrimination of male writers against women. Affected by patriarchal culture, male writers often belittle or suppress women in their literary works. This paper attempts to analyze the images of female characters in Animal Farm, and Orwell’s tendency of misogyny from a feminist perspective. Orwell’s works reflect the social status of women as the “second sex”. It is easy to recognize his androcentrism, ingrained thoughts of gender hierarchy and intense misogyny.

关 键 词：Animal Farm George Orwell MISOGYNY FEMINISM 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]