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Animal Farm

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On the surface, George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm is about a group of neglected farm animals who overthrow their owner and take control of the farm. However, under the surface this novel is an allegory detailing the events of the Russian Revolution. Orwell wrote Animal Farm in response to the events leading up to and occurring during the Russian Revolution. The author’s use of anthropomorphism and common diction lead us to believe he intended the novel to be read by the “everyday man” or lay person. This novel is written as a warning to readers with its central theme that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The author uses a detached 3rd person narrative point of view to describe the events as they unfold in the story. I …show more content…

Orwell wrote this essay detailing his personal journey into becoming a writer and to give an insight on writing to others. For example, within the essay he states the four motives of an author: sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. I believe that the author’s intended audience is directed towards political authors or authors in general. The purpose of this essay is to inform readers of his personal historical context and how it influenced his work. The voice of this piece is written in 1st person, he states, “ I wanted… I wrote… I was…” Orwell uses many rhetorical appeals within his essay; mainly pathos and ethos. The author states, “ I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons…” Within this quote, he allows many of the readers to make a connection between his childhood and theirs. He portrayed ethos by using his poem, Burmese Days, and Homage to Catalonia in order to establish his credibility. In conclusion, the tone of this essay is reflective because he showed us his perspective of life and how he personally felt about the works of …show more content…

The main thing that prompted Orwell to create this piece, were the rising amounts of writers using euphemisms and sometimes absolute vagueness to get their point across. Granted the fact that this was published a year after his novel Animal Farm, the intended audience can be assumed to be those who already read his works or those who are familiar with his political stance. Orwell wrote this essay with the intentions of informing those reading that many people back then used a truly dry form of the English language to persuade and essentially shape the reader’s mind while warning those who were intelligent enough to understand. Throughout this writing, Orwell spoke from a first person perspective. The author used literary devices such as rhetoric several times in this essay; using pathos more often than that of ethos or logos. For example in an excerpt from his essay, he talked about how an English professor was defending Russian totalitarianism. The professor would twist his words instead of sounding harsh and stating that he believed that killing off opponents is acceptable if it is beneficial. The tone given by the author is a solely straightforward and serious tone showing that his main

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