Animal Farm Figurative Language

Squealer, the king of Propaganda was a very relevant character in George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm. Propaganda is an idea or a statement that is often false, but serves the point of supporting a cause. Mostly know as Napoleon’s Mouthpiece, Squealer defended Napoleon’s decisions and commandement.This worked every time because of the animals lack of intelligence, compared to his skills to persuade his audience. Squealer’s importance in this novel was crucial. He was like Napoleon’s back legs, and fought for everything Napoleon wanted. Squealer’s way to persuade everyone, even when the right decision was clear, proves his title as propaganda king.

Although “Animal Farm” is an allegory, a book full of historical figures and historical situations, George Orwell, the author, includes a biblical reference. In “Animal Farm”, there is a raven whose name is clearly a reference to a biblical figure. The raven also happens to be in a similar situation as his biblical counterpart. Orwell implements both a biblical name and a biblical situation, to create a dimensional atmosphere for the reader.

Throughout George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Squealer continuously persuades and manipulates the animals for the personal gain of the pigs. Squealers main role in Animal Farm is to convince the animals to agree with Napoleon. Squealer uses card stacking which uses bias facts and statistics to promote a cause. Also, he uses the transfer method which associates one thing with another thing. Lastly, Squealer uses flag waving which uses a special feeling to persuade people.

Repetition; He repeats this phrase to illustrate how permanent the memories of the experience are.

Soon after building the windmill, it falls and Napoleon blames Snowball for its destruction. Some of the animals sympathize with Snowball, saying that there was no way he could have pushed it over. Napoleon becomes angry, purging the farm, killing anyone who he accuses of allying with Snowball. After he did so, animals questioned his tactics only for Napoleon to ask the animals, “Surely comrades, you would not want Jones back? (Orwell, pg. 67 Chap. 6)” By saying this rhetorical question, the animals would not question what it was that Jones had done that was worse than Napoleon, and they would just get back to doing their work. Napoleon used Squealer the pig to help him get out of situations that he brought upon himself. When Napoleon would say something that he was not supposed to, Squealer would justify for

He goes on to imply that all animals should appreciate the sacrifice Napoleon has made in becoming their leader. He explains leadership is not a pleasure, rather it is a "Deep and heavy responsibility." The syntax Squealer uses is familiar to the animals that are used to wading in deep mud doing heavy duty work. Squealer knows the other animals are not very intelligent so these words would impress the others as they know they could not carry out such a task. Squealer can be seen here exploiting one of the animals' biggest flaws: their lack of intelligence and their inability to see through his shroud manipulation. He is ensuring that none of the other animals would want to be a leader. Squealer explains that Napoleon would be happy letting the other animals make their own decisions if he thought they would make the right ones following Snowball for example, would not be the right decision as far as the other pigs are concerned. The animals are lulled into a false sense of security that the pigs will look after them. This would further increase their trust in what Squealer is saying to them. However, one of the animals say Snowball was a brave pig. Squealer goes on to explain "Loyalty and obedience are more important." This would condition the

Repetition as the word says itself it´s simply mentioning the same word more times in order for the audience to memorize what

For example, “Consider the lilies, the lilies, the lilies... shut up, shut up, shut up...Denham’s Dentifrice, Denham’s Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham's Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice…” (79). Montag is trying to read the Bible on his way to Faber. The commercial plays over and over on the subway speakers making it hard for Montag to focus on anything, but it. The cultural vomit of the loud voice limits people’s thought to it, but Montag fights it as much as he can. Bradbury also uses repetition to show how conformity can try to ruin people.

This is incredibly prominent in the chapters “The Man I Killed” and “Speaking of Courage”. As the narrator stares at the man he believes he killed, certain lines keep reappearing. The star shaped hole in the dead man’s eye, how his jaw was in his throat, his feminine physique. The incessant details of the man’s features forces the reader to imagine the dead man over and over again, constantly being reminding he too was a human with a life. The narrator intentionally does this in order to evoke the same emotion in the reader as he himself felt in the moment. “Speaking of Courage” does something similar, although not with the restating of the same words, rather by having Norman Bowker go through the same thing over and over again with little result. The reader feels a sense of boredom and sadness as they find Bowker forcing himself to drive around the same lake over and over again and wanting to tell the same story over and over again. Perhaps this monotony is what lead Norman Bowker to

Repetition was used between three time periods and four writings. The first is “Of smells” by Michel De Montaigne. Montaigne talks about how the world needs to be filled with good smells. He repeats the word “Odiferous” because it means that something is giving off a bad smell; this means the opposite of what he wants, so the audience will remember that the goal is to get rid of bad smells. The second writing is “Ain’t I a Woman” by Sojourner Truth.

How does George Orwell use characterisation to explore ideas in his Novella Animal Farm? George Orwell’s , Animal Farm conveys the concepts like loyalty can be rewarded, all power corrupts and fear is more influential than love. These key features clearly express that power can devise influential actions, which has been mentioned many times throughout the novel. The techniques like personification, irony, foreshadowing, conflict, figurative language, point of view, symbolism and imagery are used to display the manipulation, which support in an expressive tone.

In the month of April it always rains cats and dogs. April does not really have cats and dogs falling from the sky in the same manner as rain but this phrase is still used. That is because it is a metaphor. A metaphor is a word or phrase given to an object or action that means something other than what is being said. In the example given it is comparing rain in the month of April to the size of cats and dogs which means the rain drops are bigger than normal.

Squealer, the appointed speaker among the pigs, uses propaganda as a way to gain power. The animals describe Squealer as “a brilliant talker… he could turn black into white” (16). He was to make sure the animals believe that Napoleon is a righteous leader, even though in reality he is not. An example of how Squealer uses propaganda to abuse his power is when he made excuses for the animal’s reduced rations. “He had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were not in reality short of food...it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations...in comparison with the days of Jones, the improvement was enormous” (112-113). Even though the animal’s

Repetition, while may enforce a concept, also makes a short story quite boring if the same information is given to the reader several times. This type of repetition is found in Jack London's Up the Slide. For example, the author keeps reinforcing the fact that the mountain and snow is slippery and therefore Clay keeps slipping.

The repetition is the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation. Some examples of repetition are when the horses were running; the noise that they were making as approaching the Inn was “tlot-tlot”. Another example of repetition is when they said “the highwayman came riding, riding riding. When he kept saying that he loved her and he would get her someday and spend the rest of his life with her. He also kept saying how she had long black hair, he also kept saying that she was black eyed, and how pretty she