By

Abdolmajid Jafari saray

University of Sistan and Baluchestan

Zahedan, Iran

Parrhesia in 1984 and Animal Farm

Nietzsche: "Where I found a living creature,

there I found will to power" (Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1961, 137)

Introduction

"Parrhesia" (fàfÑfáfáf×fâ,,]fÑfw, "Parrhesiastes" (fàfÑfáfáf×fâfÙfÑfâfãf{,,Gfìfwfnand "Parrhesiastic" are all referring to a concept that Michel Foucault first introduced digging them out of the ancient works of Greco-Roman era. He believes that the term was first registered in Euripides literature who lived in the fifth century B.C., and descended down into the fifth century A.D with a flourishing and pervasively popular background. Oxford English Dictionary defines it as ¡§frankness or freedom of speech¡¨. Therefore the English translation of the word is "free speech¡¨, in French "franc-parler¡¨, and...