The Concept of Revolution in George Orwells Animal Farm and Ali Ahmed Bakathirs Red Rebel: A Comparative Study
This research is carried out to investigate a very important theme in modern English and Arabic literature, ”the concept of revolution”, portrayed by two famous English and Arabic literary writers. These two writers are the famous English writer George Orwell, in one of his most well known political and fable novels, Animal Farm, and the well known Arabic writer, Ali Ahmed Bakathir, in his political masterpiece ”Red Rebel”. The two famous writers expose and criticize the corruption of totalitarian regimes and communist systems in the modern world that end with great revolutions. Orwell and Bakathir have written about violence, oppression, dictatorship and cruelty that man can inflict on his fellow men. There are many points of similarities between the two novels, especially the concept of revolution.