Vedi AŞKAROĞLU

The 20th century, which witnessed the most important and widest wars, and the emergence of dictators like Stalin, Hitler or Mussolini, who were responsible for such inhuman and tragic acts as the death of millions of people, genocides, massacres and exiles, can also be labeled as the century of violance and dictatorship. In line with the market research of global forces, this period when the destruction of relatively underdeveloped geographies of the world as a way out of the global economic crises was witnessed, and various countries and groups within the same country turned into fierce enemies before and after the Cold War period, makes it urgent to analyse the underlying factors for the prospect of humanity as well as that of communities trying to construct solidarity within themselves. Among the main factors underlying violence are human savagery, greed and demand of limitless power. In literature, there are many works dealing with primitive human nature and humans who demand limitless power. The English novelist Joseph Conrad reveals the West's general characteristics, which masks their imperialistic aims with the appearance of civilisation through his character Kurtz in his novel titled Heart of Darkness; whereas another English novelist George Orwell, in his Animal Farm, whose main characters are animals, offers the picture of Soviet Revolution as the construction of dictatorship as a result of primitive human nature through the personification of pigs. In this study,  a comparative analysis of Animal Farm and Heart of Darkness is made in line with primitive human nature and the construction of dictatorship.

Key words: Primitivity, Human Nature, Dictatorship, Animal Farm, Heart of Darkness