Socio-political Issues in George Orwell's Animal Farm

In previous centuries, the power of British Imperialism have spread accross half of the nation in the world. The expansion of British Imperialism have set its own colonialism over the state that has been colonized. This term of colonialism has implied to literature for its function of the document of an era. One of the literature that has influence the tradition of colonialism is George Orwell’s Animal Farm. To know the effect of colonialism to the novel, the problems are formulated as 1) How is the power described in George Orwell’s Animal Farm? 2) How is the subaltern described in George Orwell’s Animal Farm? This research used qualitative method. The data are the text of Animal Farm. The data collected using book survey from Bogdan and Taylor (in Moleong, 2008: 282). In analyzing this research, post-colonialism used as its theoretical framework by Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin (2014). The post-colonialism theory divided into sub theory: Orientalism by Edward Said (1975) and Can the Subaltern Speak? By Gayatri Chakravotry Spivak (1985). In its practice, the tradition of colonialism that has been portrait in the novel include some aspect of the power and the subaltern. The power divided into two category: authority and hegemony as successfully described to the pigs whom become the ruling class from the other animals. Then, the subaltern divided into two category: oppressed to speak and racial issues as being described by the other animals whom as the victims of the power from the pigs