摘要
   
英国政治小说家乔治•奥威尔的《动物农场》被公认为20世纪最伟大的政治寓言小说之一。奥威尔在这本政治体寓言中向读者展示了在某农场中一场“动物主义”革命的兴衰历程：农场中的动物不满人类的压迫，在猪的带领下奋起反抗，实现了动物们“当家做主”的愿望。但之后两只处于领导地位的猪--拿破仑和雪球为了权力互相倾轧，最终拿破仑取得了农场的绝对领导权。此后，拿破仑的极权统治---使用铁血政策威慑动物并用愚民政策加以洗脑---最后导致了统治阶层的腐败，而动物们也回复到革命前的悲惨状态。本文以《动物农场》中的极权主义统治为切入点，首先分析了极权主义在统治阶级和被统治阶级中的表现，其次分析极权主义造成了统治阶级的腐败和社会公义和平等的缺失。最后本文得出结论：奥威尔通过对《动物农场》中极权主义及其造成的腐败和对社会价值观造成了不良影响的刻画，指出极权主义统治最终会导致民主革命失败，希望对今后的民主政权有警示作用。

关键词：《动物农场》；极权主义；腐败

ABSTRACT
 
George Orwell, one of the most influential writers in British literature, is well-known for his masterpiece Animal Farm (1945), which is acclaimed as one of the greatest political fables of 20th century. In Animal Farm, Orwell depicts the rise and the decline of a revolution of “Animalism” in a farm: the miserable life of the animals on the Manor Farm under the exploitation of their farmer Mr. Jones spurs them to rebel against the human beings led by pigs. Then animals successfully create a fair society only for animals. However, after the revolution Napoleon carries out totalitarianism: the blood-and-iron policy to tame the animals and the obscurantist policy to control animals’ mind in order to defend his position as the only leader of the farm, which finally leads to the failure of revolution. Based on the analysis of the manifestation of totalitarianism in both ruling class and ruled class in Animal Farm, the paper proceeds to point out totalitarianism results in the corruption both in ruling class and the social values. Finally the paper concludes Orwell reveals in his Animal Farm the totalitarianism can damage social values and democracy with the purpose to ring an alarm bell to the democratic society.

Key words: Animal Farm; totalitarianism; corruption