Peculiarities of the Artistic Representation of Violence in a Literary Text (Vazha-Pshavela, George Orwell)

Abstract

A literary tale "The Bear" (1909) by the famous Georgian writer Vazha-Pshavela and a dystopian novel "Animal Farm" (1945) by the famous English novelist George Orwell were written in the same period. Despite this, there is a much larger historical distance between these two texts in terms of socio-cultural context. In the artistic transformation of society based on violence, both writers turned to the animal world. Vazha-Pshavela chose the predator while Orwell featured domestic animals as characters. Both texts show well the almost stereotypical nature of violence, the dramatic nature of the loss of freedom, the social misery of a conquered society.