abstract the present thesis seeks to critically read george orwell’s nineteen eighty-four and animal farm in the light of louis althusser’s thought and theory. the present thesis proceeds to examine and demonstrate althusser’s major concepts including ideological state apparatuses (isas), repressive state apparatuses (rsas), the structure, the subject, and ideological interpellation which respectively are elaborated. althusser believed that in the modern capitalist society the state uses isas and rsas as major apparatuses to maintain and reproduce their domination on the oppressed and unruling class of the society. through isas, individuals are transformed into subjects and uncritically accept their subjection to the subject whose power is exerted through the subjectification process. according to althusser ideologies are not false consciousness but the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. for althusser ideologies have a material existence and are rooted in institutional rituals that reproduce them. in order to demonstrate a practical reading of concepts like ideological state apparatuses (isas), repressive state apparatuses (rsas), the structure, the subject, and ideological interpellation in terms of an althusserian approach the present study proceeded to apply them to orwell’s both novels which provide us to trace althusser’s ideas in application. ideological interpellation or the process of the subject formation as the dominant concept in the world of two novels is examined and discussed. at the same time ideological interpellation of the subjects by the isas is analyzed and explored. the state by ideology interpellates all the individuals into subjects except the bad subject.