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    In the story, Animal Farm, the main character Old Major, which is a wise and majestic-looking pig with benevolent appearance, are going to give a speech in the big barn owing to the fact that he sensed the cruel slavery in animals’ miserable life is unfair but changeable. In Old Major’s speech, it provides the inspiration and encouragement to those animals that work so hard in the farm, driving them to lead up a rebellion to overthrow the human and alter this ruthless slavery. This is a strong and

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    Old Major is a twelve year old boar with a wise and benevolent appearance. He feels that it is his duty to pass on his wisdom to the other animals before he dies. Old Major is the speaker of a speech he makes in the novel Animal Farm. In his speech he argued the idea that men are the enemies of the animals. Old Major’s purpose is to convey the idea that the only way for the animals to get justice is to form a rebellion. Old Major adopts a serious tone in order to convince the animals that the only

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    allegorical novel Animal Farm includes two speeches given by Squealer, who represents Bolsheviks, and Old major, who embodies Vladimir Lenin, in order to powerfully persuade the animals of Animal Farm. The novel is meant to represent the Russian Revolution when Vladimir Lenin gave his speech based off of Karl Marx idea of the revolution, which was seen in our novel when Old Major gave the speech about the animals rebelling against Farmer Jones who represented Tsar Nicholas ll. The speech given by Squealer

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    interesting speeches in Animal Farm is the one made by Old Major shortly before his death. It is a speech that seeks to ensure that the animals on the farm come to realize their rights and to spur them towards rebelling against their human masters. A consequence of this speech is that it has considerable ramifications, since it ends up leading to the revolution against Jones, the owner of the farm and makes the animals take control over the entire farm. Old Major’s speech is an important aspect of

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    The Rise and Fall “The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth” (Orwell 6). Old Major’s speech and advocacy for the rebellion is what helps the animals overthrow Mr. Jones in George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm. The novella shows the story of farm animals when they rule themselves. The pigs on the farm claim themselves as the most fit to rule the other animals and change all of Old Major’s initial ideas, with help from Squealer’s persuasion, for their own benefit. Through

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    Orwell’s novel Animal Farm he asserts that following “blindly”, will lead to government abuse and corruption. Orwell’s assertion brings life to the philosophy that a utopian atmosphere can never exist. Orwell’s purpose is to deliver the idea of communism not being successful and to make the audience reading not want to get into communism. George Orwell informs the young audience of the danger with communism. Orwell was a very cynical individual when it came to writing “Animal Farm”. There were

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    heated competition, or when wanting things to go a specific way. The author of “Animal Farm,” George Orwell, shows the use of persuasive characteristics within his novel. The Russian Revolution was a time period that consisted of an immense amount of competition between others, which brought out the persuasive side in people. Orwell develops a theme of “the power of words,” in his novel by using the characters Old Major and Squealer to show that persuasive words can be convincing enough to make someone

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    Rhetorical Analysis of Old Major’s Speech. In the controversial political novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, many rhetorical techniques/devices are used in Old Major’s speech, an old and wisdom-filled boar. Rhetorical devices are used throughout his speech to convince his audience to rebel against humans. Old Major’s motivating and grave tone creates a sense of mimetic desire. His speech effectively uses ethos, pathos, imagery, and a call to action to convince the Manor farm animals to spark a revolution

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    Old Major’s Propaganda… Speech After reading George Orwell’s Animal Farm, one may take better care of his or her fluffy white cat! Easily recognized as a fable, in his book Animal Farm, Orwell uses free willed, self-thinking animals to struggle for their freedoms in much the same way man does. It is not just a fable though; it is based on reality. George Orwell (or Erik Blare) dealt with conflict with social democracy, communists, and capitalism his entire life, and it sparked his novel. The one

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    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. Old Major commences his speech by establishing why he

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