İdeolojinin anlamı: George Orwell'in Hayvan Çiftliği ve Yaşar Kemal'in Filler Sultanı ile Kırmızı Sakallı Topal Karınca'nın karşılaştırmalı bir analizi

In this work, the novels Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Sultan of the Elephants and Red Bearded Lame Ant by Yaşar Kemal are analysed comparatively through the Marxist literary theory benefiting from Georg Lukács, Terry Eagleton and Lucien Goldmann. This study examines how Orwell and Kemal from different geographies, nationalities and traditions have been influenced by the Marxist literary tradition. The figures in the two novels are compared according to their characteristics/profile, the changes they have gone through, and the protagonists' endings in their own story. The features of the works have been also examined through an analysis of the writers' lives. In the theoretical part, the meaning of ideology in novels, and its reflections have been evaluated. The topic of the third part will be George Orwell's biography as a writer of the modern period, and the ideological elements as well as sociological ones in Animal Farm; in the fourth part, the biography of Yaşar Kemal and the ideological elements as well as sociological ones in his novel The Sultan of the Elephants and Red Bearded Lame Ant will be studied. The fifth chapter is about a comparative thematic and stylistic analysis of the two novels, which also is the aim of this work.