BİLGİ-İKTİDAR İLİŞKİSİ BAĞLAMINDA HAYVAN ÇİFTLİĞİ VE BİN DOKUZ YÜZ SEKSEN DÖRT ROMANLARI
ANIMAL FARM AND NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR IN TERMS OF KNOWLEDGEPOWER RELATIONSHIP

Summary/Abstract: British author George Orwell, in his novels, which he constructed under the influence of his own socio-cultural reality, deals with how and by what means knowledge is produced and used by the dominant powers, and thus revealing the relationship between knowledge and power. In particular, his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, both carry the effects of the author’s own socio-cultural background shaped on the knowledge-power level and allow for a clearer analysis of this background. In this study, using Michel Foucault’s views on knowledge-power; how knowledge is produced by the powers in Orwell’s relevant novels and which methods contribute to the production and circulation of knowledge are analysed from the perspective of the sociology of knowledge descriptively. As a result of the analysis, it is found out within the scope of these novels that the knowledge is produced by the governments and served to the society through propaganda; and this is done by creating the perception of an enemy, by disciplining it with fear, surveillance, and control, and by legitimizing it by distorting the knowledge and changing the past.

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