Rhetorical Analysis Of George Orwell's Animal Farm

“The Rhetorical Situation” by Lloyd Bitzer discusses what a rhetorical situation includes for a situation to be identified as a rhetorical situation. Bitzer states that a rhetorical situation occurs when an issue has the possibility of being changed in a positive way. Bitzer discusses that a rhetorical situation must include rhetorical exigence, audience, and constraints. Rhetorical exigences must be receptive of positive change and can only be changed through discourse. Bitzer explains that discourse is a type of social practice or a way of thinking.

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In the Russian Revolution, at the beginning, the thought of the rebellion at Animal farm is not awful by any means. Animals pull together keeping in mind the goal to dispose of the so-called vicious owner and set up equality amongst every one of them. On the other hand, as some of them begin to summon and control others, leaders come to power and the hopeful purpose changes into debasement of the power. The animal characters split up into two groups– the class of oppressors and the class of the individuals who are abused. Orwell's aim is to point on the fact that equality has never been really experienced either at the Animal farm, or in Stalin's Russia. Animals symbolize true historical characters and events.

Speech. Old Major had a dream that animals are treated with equality and he wanted to address it to the rest of the animals on the far. All the animals on the farm respected Old Major because he was wise and he thinks about life when he sits alone in his stable. The purpose of Old Major's’ speech was about his wisdom,how animals are treated, not respected and later when they are unhelpful they are killed and what they were going to have to do about the issue going go

The animals, who were the laborers, fulfilled Old Major’s wish and overthrew the capitalistic men with a revolution, much like how Marx and Engels hoped for the day the Proletarians would overthrow the Bourgeois, the owners of private property. He focused on arousing the animals emotionally and didn 't mention any practical reasons to help solve their issues. However,

The animals, who were the laborers, fulfilled Old Major’s wish and overthrew the capitalistic men with a revolution, much like how Marx and Engels hoped for the day the Proletariat would overthrow the Bourgeois, the owners of private property. He focused on arousing the animals emotionally and didn 't mention

In the book, the Animals are unhappy and fed up with their unreliable master, who forgets to care after his farm, which is essentially the same as Tsar. In the book, Jones is expelled from his farm, and dies shortly after, as does Nicholas. V. I. Lenin (interpreted by Old Major in Animal Farm) was the leader

The 1917 Russian Revolution was recreated through the novel, Animal Farm, written by George Orwell. Despite the fact that Orwell used animals as his soldiers to fight the rebellion, there are a number of characters that represent real people. “George Orwell’s use of the fable form helps the reader go beyond the details of one revolution and examine the elements of human nature which produce a Stalin and enable him to seize power. ”(Robb) In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Old Major represents Karl Marx and Marxism, the political and economical theories of Karl Marx.

Old Major, the eldest prize pig empowers the other pigs, who later govern the farm. On Animal Farm, the pigs have the most intelligence, which they use to their advantage. One of the pigs Squealer starts the trend of the twisted power. Through his boldness, Napoleon learned how to manipulate the other animals. Orwell’s goal, in writing Animal Farm, is to persuade people to understand the dysfunction and fallaciousness in communism and socialism. The reader is able to connect with the characters, also feeling the pain of some of the animals on the farm. The reader then sees how harmful tyranny is for the people. During the Stalin Era, peasants were fed up with the monarchy of the Russian government. The pigs in animal farm represent the intellectuals that embraced communism. The prized pig on the farm, Old Major, led the animals in a speech to the animals about a dream he had, which is what Karl Marx, the socialist philosopher did for the Russian

For example, one animal, a white boar named Old Major takes the first stand for the animal human equality and introduces the idea of animalism to the other animals. This is similar to how the democratic socialist Karl Marx and the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin introduced ideas of communism. Actions that the pig and these German leaders displayed both eventually lead to a transformation of their society. Another animal that steps up to take a role of leadership after the death of Old Major is the boar, comrade Napoleon who is representing Stalin, one of the most cruel persons from the Russian Revolution. Napoleon reveals some of Stalin’s actions during his reign in Soviet Russia.

Old Major is discussing his hate and the injustice upon the animals at Manor Farm and his beliefs and ideology. This was the creation of Animalism or what we call Communism.

The whole book is about the dreams and hopes of animals and the plans that would follow after. In the first chapter for example, Old Major “had a dream” and told all who gathered to hear it. This is likened to the thinker of socialism/communism Karl Marx, who came up with the concept but didn’t carry it out so those who listened to him did instead. The hope was evident in the animals when Old Major said that if they get rid of man, “the produce would be our own” (p5) and this sparked passion from deep inside the animals hearts. A symbol in Animal Farm that allegorises to the Russian Revolution was the windmill which represented the ‘5 year plan’. The ‘5 year plan’ was when all the production lines were forced to work harder so it could help better the country over a period of five years. Like the windmill it kept falling apart to start anew again until it was finally finished but did not have the effect they had planned. Another symbol was the flag of Animal Farm, it represented the hope of the animals and what they had achieved. It consisted of the green background which signified “the green fields of England” (p21) and the hoof and horn which signified “the future of the animals” (p22). Through the evidence the reader can believe and understand that dreams, hopes and plans was a key theme in the story that allegorises to the Russian

Remove man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.” In this allegory, symbolism is used with the characters. It is assumed that most of the characters in the story represent a person or a group of people from or under the rule of the Soviet Union. This most definitely helps the political part/structure of the story. Old Major is the “creator” of animalism, so he is supposed to be Karl Marx.

Analyze- Old Major’s vision of a socialist Utopia is the base of the Rebellion and Animal Farm itself. He birthed the idea of Animalism, much like Marx and Lenin were the fathers of communism.

In the book there is a pig named Major. Towards the end of his life he begins to question the authority of the farmer. Not only does he question he also tells others spreading his ideas to as many of the animals that he can reach. Major is seen to be representative of the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks fed off of the resentment of the peasants at their lack of land and the looming threat of World War I. The government promised to address the issues but took their time in doing so. By spreading their ideas the Bolsheviks gained the support of many people. This would soon lead to the support needed to set the stage for a revolution that would overthrow the provisional government that was setup following the overthrow and execution of Tsar Nicholas II by the provisional government. This provisional government was unable to perform as the people wanted because of the slow process of institution of their policies and the time necessary for elections.