Pe urmele lui Swift: George Orwell și satira secolului al XX-lea

Abstract

In this article we aim to discuss an evolution of dystopia from Jonathan Swift to George Orwell. Although dystopia flourished in the twentieth century, there are works in which dystopian accents can be found long before. We are talking about the 18th century, when Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal. Two centuries later George Orwell writes Animal Farm, a utopia between fable and satire, which eventually will turn to be a dystopia. Therefore, an important aspect of this study will be to point out Swift's influence on Orwell's Animal Farm.