Animal Farm Rhetorical Analysis

Animal Farm by George Orwell is a novel about rebellion where the animals are not under human control. Old Major is a Middle White boar who has a dream where animals live without (the tyranny of men; they are free, happy, well fed, and treated with dignity) (Spark Notes). Old Major´s purpose is to convey the idea that animals are the only way to run a farm. animals are not treated right there is going to be a rebellion. Old Major adopts a logical tone in order to show the animals they need to be treated greater if Mr. Jones wants them to work on the farm.

The food numbers are more extravagant while actual amount the animals eat is different, and Napoleon becomes more reclusive. He is also referred to more formally, written about in a poem, and given credit for things completely unassociated with him. Napoleon is still debating on whom the stack of firewood should be be sold to. Every time he leans towards one more, the other is pictured as a monster. The windmill is completed, and the animals are proud. When Napoleon decides to sell the wood to Frederick, a neighboring farm owner, he pays in fake money, and then attacks the windmill the next day. The men overpower the animals and destroy the windmill to less than rubble. The animals cry for vengeance as their work for the year was meaningless, and they are all injured one way or another or dead. The battle is still proclaimed a victory, and celebrate until news that Napoleon is dying reaches them. Napoleon’s last wish was apparently that drinking be punishable by death after whisky was found in the cellar. One night later, though, after Napoleon gets better, Squealer is found changing the rules on the barn by adding to excess to the rule about

Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution, it is based on certain aspects of the Revolution. For example, revolting the government, all of the animals on the farm group together to overthrow their cruel owner because they believe they are not being treated as well as they should be. When the animals come into power after overthrowing their master the pigs consider themselves to be the dictators on the farm, snowball one of the pigs starts to plan building a windmill to give power to the farm but Napoleon is not happy that snowball is leading the animals in thought, so he starts blaspheming him, the animals are agreeing for Snowballs idea but now Napoleon is outraged. Napoleon lets out a high pitch squeal and out of nowhere a pack of dogs he raised from puppies ran after Snowball and chased him into

The undeniable greed Napoleon possesses can only be fulfilled by giving the other animals the illusion of bettering themselves by not questioning his logic: “Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying, ‘If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.’ And from then on he adopted the maxim, ‘Napoleon is always right,’ in addition to his private motto of ‘I will work harder’” (Orwell 60). Because Animal Farm’s audience predominantly consists of working class citizens, they begin to feel sympathy for Boxer since he cannot recognize Napoleon is exploiting him exclusively for his personal goal of becoming a puissant leader; therefore, animosity towards Napoleon develops in the audience. Considering the animals promptly welcome Napoleon’s promise of a better life, they work towards exhaustion, unknowingly fueling Napoleon’s greed: "All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings" (63). Although the animals working for Napoleon are unaware he is gradually becoming more human and willfully betraying his fellow animals for his own benefit, it is evident to the audience that Napoleon is corrupt. As Napoleon cunningly achieves power, his greed continues to grow, the same as a totalitarian leader’s:

In the passage of Animal Farm, Squealer, constantly using various persuasive techniques such as repetition, plain folks, rhetorical questions, appeal to reason, appeal to emotion and appeal to authority, convincing the other animals that their ex “comrade” Snowball was a traitor and had deceived them since the beginning of the revolution. When using these Logical Fallacy’s, he successfully convinces the rest of the animals to believe and continue following the leadership of their fellow “comrade” Napoleon.

Most of us communicate with others with words every day, using words as a tool to transfer messages. In the book Animal Farm, however, the language was used as a powerful weapon to strengthen the dominated dictatorship of Napoleon. Orwell explored the problem of rhetoric in Animal Farm by narrating how Napoleon and Squealer used words to placate other animals because their words effectively consolidated their power. This essay will demonstrate the rhetoric power in Animal Farm by presenting three examples.

In the novella Animal Farm, the timeline of early 1900s Russia unfolds in an allegory, with revolutionists Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx sparking a rebellion against Czar Nicholas II. Subsequently, a social democratic party known as the Bolsheviks overthrew the czar, aided by two significant leaders: Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Even so, the newfound ideology of communism that Stalin introduced and quickly corrupted through propaganda proved to be just as oppressive as the reign of Nicholas II. Most importantly, this corruption and oppression was elucidated by British author George Orwell through the use of rhetorical devices in the allegorical satire Animal Farm, where the audience receives a glimpse into the cunning caricature of

1.Orwell's Animal farm is an allegory to the Russian revolution but it uses animals to demonstrate the events, for example in chapter six it says “ All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings”. This is showing how the farm owners would treat these animals like slaves which eventually caused the big rebellion. And all of this symbolizes the big picture, the Russian Revolution took place in 1917 when the peasants and working class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas II.

Novelist, George Orwell, in his novel, Animal Farm, a pig name Old Major establishes a speech about animals´ lives in the farm and passes down his wisdom to the other animals. Old Major´s purpose is describe how animals´ lives are miserable. He describes how the animals do nothing but work, and after they cannot do that, they get killed. He adopts a angry emotional tone in order to get the reader to understand and feel the emotions of the animals.

Animal farm is a book that describes the harsh reality of inequality and injustices towards people of different races in the form of animals on a farm. In a fictional world, talking animals on a farm overthrow the owner, Mr. Jones, and drive him out of his own farm. These shockingly human animals have many of the characteristics that humans have, notably greed and social class differences. In Animal Farm, the revolution and rule of the animals is used as a metaphor to show how corrupt power can lead to inequality and unfair social classes.

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

Animal Farm is a historical novel, set in England written to portray the events leading up to and after the Russian Revolution of 1917. As well as events, characters such as old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon represent the dominant figures of the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm illustrates the idea that power changes and absolute power changes absolutely. When studying characters, such as, Napoleon’s actions in the novel the misuse of power is expressed.

Symbolic of this is the manipulation used by Squealer and his delivery of the threat of Jones’ return “Surely you do not want Jones to come back” Squealer and Napoleon used this fear to manipulate the animals to get what they wanted. All the animals agreed on the several commandments on the barn wall when they were first written, through the slow changing of these Napoleon was able to exercise his authority and make his bad behaviour acceptable. “No animal shall drink alcohol in excess” Napoleon used this commandment change to his advantage and make his constant alcohol drinking acceptable. Squealers speeches are consistently used as a manipulation tool, when Boxer died Squealer made a stirring speech and promptly reminded all the animals of Boxers two favourite maxims “I will work harder” and “Comrade Napoleon is always right” Squealer uses these statements as motivation for the animals to want to work harder on the rebuilding of the windmill and other jobs around the farm to honor their fallen friend unknown to them that they are cunningly being enslaved by Squealer and

It tells the story of the revolution of the animals living on Manor Farm. A pig named Napoleon rises to become the totalitarian leader of the farm, which is renamed Animal Farm, after the lazy, alcoholic farmer is run off. Animal farm is an allegory for the October Revolution and Stalin's regime in Russia. It is a novel in which "every detail has political significance" (Meyers 133). Napoleon the Pig, representing Stalin, gradually tears down the precepts upon which Animal Farm has been founded and eventually returns the farm to a condition almost worse than before, with the pigs whipping, killing, and starving the other animals.

In George Orwell’s novel Animal farm he presents his opinion that many revolutions fail in that rather than freeing oppressed people they replace tyrants with new ones. He alludes to this fact in the book by showing the transition of power from the dictatorial owner of the farm Mr. Jones to the even more tyrannical leader Napoleon the pig. However the book also acts as a warning to never blindly trust those who portray themselves as bearers of freedom and scrutinize all leaders.