The Impacts of the Second World War on British Literature, A Case Study of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-our

The Second World War is one of the defining features of the twentieth-century experience which had a great impact on different aspects of the British society including its literature. This paper attempts to analyze the changes happened to British literature after the Second World War under the influence of the war. Since the Second World War, an incredible range and variety of writing has emerged from a mood of hesitancy and conservatism in the immediate post-war decades to the different schools of literary criticisms after the sixties. Most of the movements were related to the idea of being 'post' or being after something. To see the impact of the Second World War on British literature in a practical and tangible way, the researcher has chosen George Orwell's dystopian novel ineteen Eighty- Four ; because a dystopia can show the disastrous results of the war better. In order to analyze the impacts of the Second World War, the literary criticism approach will be used to see the context in which Orwell's novel was created. Since no literary work can be created in vacuum, the social milieu in which the novel was created will be analyzed and in this analysis the setting, characters, symbols and themes of the novel are explained by referring to the evidences from the novel.

کلیدواژه ها:

The Second World War ، British Literature ، George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty- Four