Animal Farm Rhetorical Analysis

Animal Farm begins on Manor Farm, where overworked, tired, and hungry animals are unhappy in the conditions that they are in, but when an old boar named Old Major introduces the idea of a rebellion and encourages the animals to take control over the farm, the animals begin an uprising against the humans, taking control over the land and renaming the farm “Animal Farm.” However, greedy and corrupt leaders rise to power and turn a once prosperous farm, into a nightmare. In Animal Farm, George Orwell asserts the idea that absolute power results in corruption. Napoleon and the other pigs, interested in remaining superior, persuades the other animals by using intimidation and emotional appeals in order to keep control of the gullible animals.

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:

George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm is a great example of allegory and political satire. The novel was written to criticize totalitarian regimes and particularly Stalin's corrupt rule in Russia. In the first chapter Orwell gives his reasons for writing the story and what he hopes it will accomplish. It also gives reference to the farm and how it relates to the conflicts of the Russian revolution. The characters, settings, and the plot were written to describe the social upheaval during that period of time and also to prove that the good nature of true communism can be turned into something atrocious by an idea as simple as greed. This essay will cover the comparisons between Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution. It will also explain why

Orwell effectively conveys the rise of communism in Russia throughout the book Animal Farm by the accurate elucidation of the context in the Soviet Union from 1917-1945. Orwell’s attitude and political view towards Russia is evident in his representation of the farm animals on Communist Party leaders: Napoleon and Snowball, for example, are figurations of Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky, respectively. He expresses the anthropomorphic characters of farm animals, and major events in Animal Farm such as the Rebellion and the construction of the windmill, reminiscent of the Russian Revolution and the “Five-Year Plans”. Orwell also uses many techniques to describe the crucial points in Animal Farm by metaphoric language and allegorical means

Orwell uses the allegory, Animal Farm, to present the story of The Russian Revolution and essentially express his opinions on the matter. By plainly exposing the unjust and corrupt system that is communism, Orwell is ultimately presenting his pessimistic view of human nature.

Bill Clinton once said, “The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of truth.” How did the tactics the pigs used towards the animals manipulate and prevent them from seeing the truth? The pigs tried to control the animals by appealing to their ethics, emotions, and logic by using rhetoric and propaganda. These tactics manipulated the animals to become easily deceived since they blindly listened to the pigs just because they were scared for Mr. Jones to come back. For instance, the animals had become so blindly manipulated, that they didn’t realize they were living in much worse or the same conditions after Mr. Jones left. The rhetorical tactics that the pigs used towards the animals instilled fear in many of the animals making it easier to manipulate them.

In the course of making an argument, there are untold tomes filled with the ways an advocate for a cause or a conclusion can go about persuading, enlightening, or inveigling their counterpart or congregate into grasping on to. Like most subjects in the world, the method chosen in constructing those arguments vary widely in their efficacy. One such method is that of using rhetorical strategies in order to further one’s argument with elements specifically to cater to an audience, adversary, or both. This very method has long been used as a meter or sorts to gauge the effectiveness of each facet of a standpoint in an argument. In the book Eating Animals, the author Jonathan

An essay written by V.C. Letemedia titled, Revolution on Animal Farm: Orwell’s Neglected Commentary, Letemedia addresses the complexities and the controversy associated with the writing of Animal Farm. In the essay Letemedia suggests that the one thing that was never accomplished in the novel was equality. The reason for this is because, “men are only decent when they are powerless,” (Letemendia 127) this theory does hold true judging from the initial intent of the implementation of Animalism. The idea is that quality is never really achieved, the rhetoric of equality is always spoken by those who are vying for positions of power, but those words are often used without good intent.

"Go vegan." The vast majority have heard these words more times than they'd probably like to. The logic behind veganism seems simple enough. In his essay, “Animal, Vegetable, Miserable”, on page seven hundred and sixty nine in From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text & Reader, Gary Steiner argues that, like humans, animals have feelings of agony, sophisticated social lives and yearn for freedom and a long for high quality of life. A vegan himself, Steiner considers animals our equals and has written his essay from the point of view of a vegan.

Rhetoric is a common tool used in Animal Farm that aids in the exploitation and control of the other animals on the farm. George Orwell, the author, specifically explores this problem by demonstrating how it can be used for malicious purposes, via the propaganda spread by Squealer to support the sayings of Napoleon. He also shows how language can be used as a similar tool.

An Allegory is, “a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.” Animal Farm is an allegory for the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm with the intention of helping others understand the gravity of Stalin's rule. He wrote in an allegory instead of a black and white opposition to Stalin and it worked. Because of the allegorical story, it was understandable to anyone, and it was created in a simple way that shows not only the evil of the antagonist, but also how understandable it was that he got there.

Animal farm is a renowned, allegorical novella written by George Orwell in 1945, which can be interpreted to have a hidden political meaning behind it referring to the Russian Revolution. Throughout this novella, the author purposely positions the audience to make judgements based on sensible, moral perception to show that Orwell effectively revealed how the pigs exploited a vast majority of propaganda techniques to deceptively manipulate the values, attitudes and beliefs of the other animals, with full intention of complete social control. This was exposed to the reader when the three main values of ‘Animalism’, as outlined in Old Major's speech, which consists of freedom, unity and equality, are abused for the pigs own advantage. This task

The 1945 dystopian novel Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, follows the pigs rise to power after the rebellion which got rid of their former tyrant, Mr Jones and their ever increasing similarity to this former oppressor. It is an allegorical equivalent of Stalin’s rise to power and the Russian Revolution and links to the context of when Stalin’s power increased following the 1917 revolution, his use of propaganda to convince the Russian people that only he could protect them and the several famines endured as the result of his economic policies between 1932 and 1934. Throughout this text, Orwell has used numerous techniques such as repetition, offended tone, irony and juxtaposition to convey ideas about the dystopian genre such as the use

George Orwell painted an allegorical depiction of Communist Russia with Animal Farm: a short Roman à clef centered around a farmstead and its inhabitants. The pigs in Animal Farm declared the animals of independent and took control of their naïve counterparts, and set off to run the world’s first farm run independently by animals. Orwell exploited the tyranny of Jones and Napoleon to convey the inevitability of corruption that comes with dictatorial authority and disclose history repeating itself throughout the course of the short story.

Animal Farm, a dystopian allegorical satire by George Orwell, illustrates Orwell’s own disillusionment with communism and socialist ideas present in 1900’s Russia. The events in the narrative mirror events in Soviet Russia like the rise of the notorious tyrant, Joseph Stalin, the Russian Revolution, and the beginning of World War II. In the novella, the animals introduce the idea of animalism (communism), a system where everyone was equal and the people owned the government. Orwell wanted the reader to understand that this political ideology was great in theory but when played out, it was easily abused and used to maliciously manipulate the people. To convey his message, George Orwell uses rhetorical devices to help the audience understand the flaws of a communist regime like Russia.