George Orwell 's The Barn

In George Orwell’s Novel, Animal Farm, Old Major delivers a speech to the animals on the farm. Major preaches on how the humans are weak, selfish, lazy thieves who steal from the farm animals. Lecturing on banning together and rebelling against the humans, Old Major uses pathos, ethos, asyndetons, and imagery to help sparks an uproar amongst the animals. Major uses these strategies to engage and convince them of who the real enemy is.

In the popular book, Animal Farm, by George Orwell, a pig named Old Major makes a speech to all of the barn animals. Old Major feels that humans are the root of all of the animals suffering and so he gives a speech to the animals to convince them of this. In his speech, Old Major uses logos, pathos and figurative language to engage his audience and persuade the animals to rebel.

His diction is in fact instrumental to his success in convincing his audience. He says, “no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block… To that horror we all must come… [italics mine]” This subtle use of graphic word choice makes for horrific imagery in the animals’ minds, further generating even more hatred and resentment against Farmer Jones. Old Major expounds on the many grievances the animals have suffered, even listing the gruesome fates of individual animals, stating that Boxer will be sold to the knacker, who will “cut your throat and boil you”, and that Jones “ties… a brick round [the dogs’] necks and drowns them.” Thus, he turns the animals against Man through exposing the tyranny of Man and listing numerous inherent lackings and vices. Old Major’s selection of heavily connotated and illustrative words makes for a vivid and compelling speech.

At the start of the story, the animals of Manor Farm begin to comprehend that their means of existence is to slave away to the needs of Mr. Jones or man in general. They then make a successful attempt to take over the farm in a rebellion. However, later on in the story they were able to slip back into the grasp of oppression since the pigs become corrupt due to their high position of power in the farm. The pigs are so blinded by greed that they don’t even bother to see how much the animals are suffering. At the end, the pigs are now the new Mr. Jones and so closely resemble man that the rest of the animals cannot even tell the difference between them. Showing the reader that one of the main themes that Animal Farm contains is the abuse of power with language.

The next theme that is exposed in this book is rebellion. The most prominent scenario that is seen in this book and defines the definition of rebellion is introduced in the first chapter. In the first chapter Old Major, a prize possession boar of Mr. Jones, gathers all the animals to the barn to share a dream he had the previous night. All the animals show except for the raven. Once all the animals are gathered Old Major tells his dream of Animal Farm in a non suffering state where all the animals would be free and allowed to live life free without labor. However, he does mention that in order to achieve this utopia the animals must get rid of man since man is the only factor that causes the animals to labor, and man does not produce rather

After gathering forces the farmers join together again to try and retake “Animal Farm” from the animals. The animals of the farm were always prepared for this action to happen so they were prepared. When the attack of regaining animal farm happened the animals used they plan they had created and successfully pushed out the farmers trying to regain the land. The animals didn't account for Mr. Jones who had planted TNT on the windmill and had blown it up in the back of the farm while the animals were in the front. It started a process that they had to rebuild the

1. Old Major explains his grief about a typical animals lifetime. He walked through the process of how laborious and short lasting a animals life on the farm is. He says that no animal in England is free. He’s concerned that this unethical process will continue on after he dies. He helped the animals understand that it is not the climate that is killing them off, but the owner. Some workers in today’s time might complain that their pay is not enough to support them or their family, or that they are not being treated properly.

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.

Throughout most of this novel, the animals tend to betrayal their farmer, Mr. Jones. The animals, who live on Mr. Jones farm, realize that the farmers are mis- treating them when Old Major, the barn owl, states, “We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous

Subsequent to being introduced to the animals within the first chapter, there is a major change within their behavior. After reading chapters 2-4, the author utilizes themes such as good versus evil, discovery, and courage and ambition to demonstrate the courage of the animals as they engage in their revolution. Here, the author reveals another side to Mr. Jones and the animals on the farm. To commence, Old Major passes away and his death highly influenced the other animals. Through his elaborate speeches, he encouraged the animals to secretly plan the rebellion, even if they did not know when it is supposed to unfold.

Major, a highly regarded animal on the farm, gathered all of the animals together and tells them about a dream that he had the night before. He tells them that it will not be long until he dies and that he wants to pass on the wisdom that he has. He goes on and tells them that their life is miserable and short. The main message of his speech is to have a rebellion against Mr.Jones and human beings in general. 3.During Old Major’s speech he tells the animals that all men are enemies and that all

The rebellion was initiated to escape the human’s cruel ways but instead brought out the ultimate good and evil in the animals. Animal Farm begins with an idea of rebellion thought up by the most respected animal; Old Major, after revolution/rebellion of Manor Farm to Animal Farm. The animal’s true characters begin to show and Animal Farm begins to show the same qualities of Manor Farm. A dictatorial government comes into play and the animals develop the human like qualities that they were trying to rid themselves of. The resurrection of Manor Farm after the revolution was due to the tyrannical behavior of Napoleon and his ability to convince the other animals that everything he was doing was for the best.

Many of the animals feel they should rebel against Man, yet some fear that it will cause harm to them instead of giving them the benefit of happiness. Many of the animals want freedom from the farm, “‘Because nearly the whole produce of [their] labor is stolen from [them] by human beings,’” and none of the animals are allowed to keep their offspring as well because Man takes everything from the animals. Major also suggests that they should, “‘...remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever,’” (2). The animals feel that by rebelling against the ways of Man and taking the farm for themselves that they will feel happy and free instead of unhappy under the control of

In the beginning of the book, the farm’s owner, Mr.Jones comes home and goes straight to bed. Knowing that they are safe to congregate, the animals meet in the barn, listening to a lecture from a pig named Old Major. He tells his comrades that he had a dream in which they were free from humans, and all animals were equal. He also taught them a song about animals becoming free

The rebellion was to escape from people and their cruel ways, but can they escape the death-grip of their own kind? The animals of animal farms are mistreated and have no rights. Mr and Mrs. Jones were the owners of Manor Farm, the human oppressors, and authoritarians of the animals. The animals rebel against the Jones and take over the farm. They create a utopian society for themselves, but the utopia quickly turns into a dystopia when the pigs take control of the farm. In many ways, Animal Farm is a complete allegorical / fable –like retelling of the founding of the Soviet Union, complete with a rebellion and eventual installation of a dictator. Like the ideological battle that was raged in Russia between the classes, the one that is played out in this novel have many of the same themes, including an initial push to strengthen the working class, a strong beginning movement of nationalism and unity, a series of successful efforts to topple the ruling authority (Mr. Jones), all followed by a complete totalitarian takeover by a dictator who is a hypocrite and goes back on many of the promises he made at the height of the revolutionary action.