Table Of ContentS ABSTRACT i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii
             1. CHAPTER THE AUTHOR: GEORGE ORWELL 1
             1.3. HIS TIME: POLITICAL BACKGROUND 4
             1.3.1. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 5
             1.4. ORWELL AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 8
             2.2.2. CHARACTERISTICS OF SATIRE 14
             4. CHAPTER ANIMAL FARM AS SATIRE 21
             4.2. ELEMENTS OF SATIRE IN ANIMAL FARM 21
             4.2.2. SATIRICAL TECHNIQUES IN ANIMAL FARM 24
             4.2.2.1. APPROACH TO THE SUBJECT 24
             4.2.2.3. CHARACTERISATION 27
             4.2.2.5. COMPARISON OF ANIMAL FARM AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 43
             5. CHAPTER CONCLUSION 49 5.1. SUMMARY OF THE STUDY 49 5.2. CONCLUSION
             Animal Farm as Political Satire KORKUT, Rydvan Supervisor: Assoc.Prof. Dr.
             This study aims to determine that George Orwell's Animal Farm is a
             political satire which was written to criticise totalitarian regimes and
             particularly Stalin's practices in Russia. In order to provide background
             information that would reveal causes led Orwell to write Animal Farm,
             Chapter one is devoted to a brief summary of the progress of author's life
             and significant events that had impact on his political convictions.
             Chapter one also presents background information about Animal Farm. Chapter
             two is devoted to satire. In this chapter, definition of satire is
             presented and some important characteristics of satire are discussed. In
             chapter three, the method of this research is described. Under the light of
             information presented in the previous chapters, Chapter four discusses
             Animal Farm and focuses on the book as a political satire. The last chapter
             presents the conclusion of this study.
             I would first like to express my sincere thanks to my thesis supervisor,
             Assoc.Prof. Dr. Jashua M. Bear for his help and freedom he gave me in this
             study. Without his understanding this thesis would never have been
             I also wish to thank my sister Fidan Korkut for her suggestions in the
             planning stage...