Animal Farm Rhetorical Analysis

The 1945 book titled “Animal Farm”, by George Orwell tells the story of a pig who defies his farmers rule and attempts to give control to the animals rather than the farmers. Through the characters being stand ins for their real world counterparts, to the story mirroring the events of the Russian Revolution, Orwell correctly and beautifully creates a simple allegory speak about dictatorship.

One of the easiest ways to demonstrate Animal Farm as an allegory is to look at the character Napoleon, the main pig in charge of Animal Farm. Napoleon rises to power based on the beliefs of Old Major a late pig who said, “no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind” and that “All animals are equal.”. It is clear that if the animals are workers in the farm, then all workers are equal and that makes Old Major a parallel to Marxism and also Vladimir Lenin. Napoleon can then be concluded to be Joseph Stalin, who succeeded Lenin in the Soviet Union.

Orwell cleverly utilises the character Squealer to show the influence of word on a party. The only form of history available to the farm is through Squealer, meaning Squealer has the power to document what’s going on, or change a previous one. Sense there is no other fact to the farm, the animals must believe Squealer even if he has changed core values of the farm. Orwell sets up the harsh idea of controlled media and intelligence through