Satire in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Vidya Evenangelia : 167010052

This Research is entitle “Satire in George Orwell’s Animal Farm”. It attempts to analysis the satire as a method to shape the dystopia in Animal Farm story. There purposes to conduct this research; to know the satire as a method to deliver critics. The writer limits the research about the satire in accordance to the dystopia The writer uses post structuralist narratology that used by Roland Barthes in his book “S/Z” through the five codes. The writer uses a descriptive qualitative method in order to answer the research problem by doing critical reading undertaking the five codes of Barthes to collect the data. The writer found that data in George Orwell’s Animal Farm novel based on its characters, sequences of events, conversations between the characters, and symbols that suit with the characteristics if dystopia. Through the five codes by Barthes, the writer interprets the satire that shapes the dystopia in this novel. Also the writer could find the imply meaning of the satire, which is the target and the purpose of the satire by traced the background of the story within the history. Keyword: Literature, Satire, Dystopia, Barthe