Animal Farm is an excellent book where George Orwell fuses political purpose into aesthetic text. This study used Georg Lukács’ s viewpoints of realism, especially the theory of reflection that the literary text is a reflection of social reality to make an interpretation of Animal Farm. In order to find whether the text is the truthful refection of the social reality and make it clear how the text reflects the reality, this study mainly made an investigation of the author’s personal lived experience. After the investigation, it is clear that Orwell is an authentic writer who absorbs his lived experience as a lower-middle student in the convent school run by French Catholic nuns, in the boarding school named St Cyprian’s School and as an worker in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma,the British colonial land. His lived experience made him recognize the class contradiction and class struggle and enables him stand in the same position with the working class.
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