Abstract
This paper focuses on George Orwell’s two best-known novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. A detailed comparison of the two novels is made from three aspects, namely three-tiered social structure, similar social relations and the cause, and similar means of control. The last aspect is further analyzed from the following four parts: creation of a slogan, cruel ruling, distraction of people’s attention and manipulation of language and alteration of history. Hopefully, with this horizontal comparison, a fresh perspective can be provided for readers’ interpretation of Orwell's works.
Keywords   George Orwell   Animal Farm   Nineteen Eighty-Four

本文主要对乔治•奥威尔在《动物农场》和《1984》两部小说中所描写的社会进行了比较分析。对比研究主要从以下三个方面进行,即相似的社会结构,社会关系及其成因和相似的统治手段。而对两个社会中的统治手段，本文又从以下四个方面进行了详细的对比分析：一、创造一种口号；二、高压统治；三、转移人民注意力；四、操纵语言，篡改历史。通过这种横向比较，希望能给读者理解奥威尔的创作主题和手法提供一个新的视角。
关键词  乔治•奥威尔   《动物农场》   《1984》 

Among George Orwell’s numerous novels and essays, two stands out particularly, winning him world-wide fame. They are the frequently-quoted Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Written in his late life, the two works represent Orwell’s last effort in fighting against totalitarianism in various forms and under different ideological covers. They serve as a constant reminder of how corrupted a society could become if totalitarianism reigns over the world.
Born in 1903 in Britain, George Orwell is respected as an eminent journalist, novelist and essayist. Though he lived a short-lived life, he has left us a valuable treasure—a detailed record of the world of his time with his keen insight and incisive writing and has made many prophecies beyond his age. Young Orwell was educated at the prestigious boarding school St.Cyprian’s, where most of the students were from wealthy, upper-class family. As a poor boy coming from what he himself called “lower-middle-upper class’’, Orwell was admitted only as some sort of intelligence investment by the school to ensure that Orwell could win the Eton scholarship in the future for the honor of the school. Subjected to the snobbery and derision of other boys and the headmaster, Orwell had a rather painful childhood of corporal punishment and cramming study. It is exactly based on this experience that Orwell wrote the essay “Such Such Were The Joys”(1968).