LITERARY ANALYSIS

Course Objective: The course aims at enhancing students critical thinking, writing, and speaking skills through a literary piece. By the end of the course students will be able to critically and literally analyse a dystopic novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell. They will also elaborate on the relevant themes that may shed light on our current lives. The course involves doing a presentation and writing a literary analysis about the themes that come up in the novel. 

Course Content: The course focuses on two main elements. The former is some literary devices that can guide students to better understand the novel; namely, use of metaphors, allusions, allegory, and conflict. The latter is the ability to discuss the themes of the novel such as corruption of socialist ideas in the Soviet Union, societal tendency to class stratification, the failure of intellect and the abuse of language as instrumental to the abuse of power.