Rhetorical Analysis Of George Orwell's Animal Farm

In animal farm, Napoleon uses fear to protect his leadership role by making the dogs as the police. “At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn.” The use of visual image describes in this quote depicts how Napoleon is using fear to keep his position. “Silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn. In a moment the dogs came bounding back.” This quote portrays how scared the animals are after the elimination of Snowball by also using high modality. “Though not yet full-grown, they were huge dogs, and as fierce-looking as wolves.” This quote uses a simile to display how fierce the dogs are as they are being compared to wolves. Through these quotes, it can now be seen how animal farm uses fear to insure Napoleons

Also, Napoleon is characterized indirectly in the story through his thoughts speech and actions. Through all his actions, the readers are led to understand that he was a cruel dictator like leader. We learn that power corrupted him and he ended up ruining the animals’ future instead of building a better

Napoleon was one of the main instigators of Animal Farm’s downfall. He was portrayed as a heartless and selfish dictator, who terrorized the other animals, and whom was willing to

The antagonist of the book ‘Animal Farm’, Napoleon was highly emphasized for his cruel tactics that he upheld against his fellow animals. He tortured and tormented them giving himself the title of a cruel leader. This sense of tyranny is why he resembles Mr.Jones the previous owner of Manor Farm. Similar to Mr.Jones, Napoleon has created a caste system in which he is the “farmer” and the rest of the animals are his “slaves”, he has shown that he only uses the animals for his own monetary gain, and that he uses fear and propaganda to control the rest of the animals. In this essay I will compare and contrast the two individuals.

Napoleon is an unfaithful and parasitical pig even to the most loyal devotees excluding his fellow deputation of pigs. For example, “The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out” (39). This shows that Napoleon has been ignominiously trying to keep the animals off his back about Boxer being slaughtered. This also shows that Napoleon can not give the treatment that Boxer deserves even after he has been loyal to him. In conclusion, the animals can say that Napoleon is not reliable after the awful event of Napoleon sending Boxer to be processed after Boxer had been very embolden and devoted to him.

Animal Farm is created as an egalitarian utopia when the animals overthrow Mr Jones. An ambitious pig, Napoleon exploits this utopia and seizes power through violence. Readers view this objectively through the text’s third-person narration as shown by this quote. ‘Napoleon himself, majestically upright…he carried a whip’. This quote shows, from an objective viewpoint, how Napoleon elevates himself to a higher status, ‘majestically upright’ and how he reinforces this with the threat of violence, ‘he carried a whip’.

The subjects of capital punishment and human exploitation are expressed in ANIMAL FARM. Throughout the book, Napoleon slowly manipulates the animals until he has total control over them. The amount of power he has increased to where he begins to exploit the animals for his own selfish reasons. Napoleon practices strategies to have a greater advantage of the farm. For instance, reminding the animals of the way life was when Jones was in charge to convince them his transformation of the farm is for the better.

As he continues to rule, he acquires more power and he uses it to violate and change laws so that they best benefit him and his reign. Napoleon’s main focus in ruling Animal Farm is to lead the animals away from Animalism, and the animals’ lack

Animal Farm satirises politicians, categorically their rhetoric, insistent desire for power and capability to manipulate others. Despite Napoleon’s ‘professedly’ charitable motives, He is portrayed as the embodiment of a megalomaniac who conceals all of his actions with the justification that they are done for the ‘betterment’ of the farm. His stealing of the apples and milk, for example, is masked by the lie that the foods have nutrients imperative to the pigs, who need this nutrients to persevere with their ‘directorial’ work. His edging Snowball off the farm is justified by the lie that Snowball was an imposter, working for Jones, and that the farm’s state will improve without Him. Any time that Napoleon and the other Pigs hoped to break

Initially, as a true Communist society, the animals gain a sense of comradery through their shared senses of duty and pride in their movement. As Napoleon begins to isolate himself and emerge only “in a ceremonial manner,” he erases this bond, elevating himself over his people in order to exert more control over them and effectively shifting Animal Farm from a Communist establishment to a totalitarian one. Stories that Frederick “flogged an old horse to death, starved his cows, killed a dog by throwing it into the furnace, and amused himself in the evenings by making cocks fight with splinters of razor-blade tied to their spurs” cement the animals’ view of the post-revolutionary farm as idyllic, although the residents of Animal Farm experience similar acts of cruelty at the hands of Napoleon. Napoleon is often set directly parallel to Jones, yet at the same time his regime is continuously hailed as better, simply because it is different. As the animals’ society progresses, “they had won, but they were weary and bleeding;” the Revolution was intended to better their lives, but it primarily incurred more suffering and

In Orwell’s Animal Farm, it is interesting to see the metamorphosis of Napoleon from the swine in shining armor to the terrifying tyrant in a short matter of time. At first, he is the trusted leader of the animals, but as his power grows, his villainy grows through his manipulative character and malevolence. When the novel first starts off, Napoleon is seen as the savior of the farm, and thanks to his ability to lead and his intelligence, “The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be”(Orwell 12). They reach a height of happiness and liberation among the farm, as they no longer need to submit to humans or work like slaves.

Napoleon was the leader in Animal Farm, but before he assumed total power, he needed to take on little responsibility. He started by taking food from the animals and shared it with only the pigs who were already taking leadership on the Farm. However, for him to reach his supremacy he harmed the animals in many brutal and unacceptable ways. Before Napoleon was able to gain total control over the farm, he had to eliminate his contender to rule in Snowball. Napoleon took Bluebell and Jessie's pups and raised them to be merciless and to obey only him. After he drove out his adversary, he forbade debates and did not let anyone challenge him. In order for no one to have a say in anything, Napoleon ordered his vicious dogs to constantly establish fear in

Napoleon does not stop there, however, he further intimidates the farm animals in a cruel and brutal way. Orwell writes of Napoleon’s slaughter of many animals that even considered disobeying his rules, Chapter 7 describes, “And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones” (84). Napoleon, Animal Farm’s main commander for the majority of the book, shows no mercy to any animal that defies him. The leaders’ mercilessness, particularly that of Napoleon, causes the loss of freedom by using fear to force the animals to comply to their instructions or face harsh punishment and loss of equality by ensuring they hold the most power.

The oppressor Napoleon always made resolutions without asking the rest of the animals on the farm about their belief on it. For example:” He was strongly against the whole windmill idea when Snowball bought it up, but then after Snowball was not on the farm anymore, he decided to bring the windmill idea up again. This idea was good for the farm and it can bring comfort and luxuries to all of the animals, but he did not ask the rest of the animals on what they thought about it. When the windmill was demolished, Napoleon put all the animals back to work straight away and even not bother asking the animals when they would prefer to start making the windmill”. (Missy, 2010)) Furthermore, Napoleon made all of the animals suffered and worked nevertheless in cold weather and he also used the whip to hit who was disobedience his order. Napoleon also did not care about the quality of life of the rest of animals, he gave them a plenty of time to rest and a little of food but still need them to complete all of the hard work. (Orwell, George, 1956) He only did whatever will bring benefit to him and he was rest in the farmhouse and drink alcohol with the rest of the pigs. In this novel shows that, Napoleon has excessively power, which led him made decisions subjectively without care about what other’s want, In this part, I had learnt a

In Animal Farm, the author uses indirect and direct characterization to describe Napoleon. The quote, “Napoleon was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar...but with a reputation for getting his own way” (Orwell 35), shows a direct description of Napoleon. The quote gives the reader a direct look at how the character is. This description wastes no time and tells you right away what Napoleon’s traits are. The author talks about his traits, which display many parts of his personality. By his fierce looks, the common animals are often intimidated which leads to him getting what he wants. This is a reason many people believe that he gets things his way. Napoleon often deceived the common animals into thinking he was a great leader and could handle the responsibility of power better than Snowball. The animals soon