Animal Farm Rhetorical Analysis

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Orwell's Animal Farm is a novel written and consequently used to show the weaknesses of Communism. Orwell speaks about tyranny, and all the side effects that this type of dictatorship evolves. He was worried about repression of the human rights and the injustice of the rulers. As an allegorical tale it shows the dangers of tyranny, using the story of Napoleon, Snowball, and Boxer as a form of rhetoric. What is the meaning of those two words? On one hand, allegoric is a figurative representation conveying a meaning other than the literal. It can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. It can be a poem, tale, or story written to teach a moral or reveal a hidden meaning. On the other hand, rhetoric means …show more content…

Animal Farm is the story of an animal revolution of the residents in Manor Farm. As a fact, the pig, Old Major, decides and motivates the other animals to change their “miserable, laborious, and short” lives. They dethrone Mr. Jones, their master, and put themselves in charge of the administration and direction of the farm. As he is a cruel human leader the animals decide to stop his mandatory, but thinking of a better way to live they took bad decisions and fall under the rule of a more tyrannical leader, Pig Napoleon. Napoleon and his committee of pigs constitute a dictatorship system that has to be obeyed by the animals on the farm to feel freedom from cruel leaderships like Mr. Jones'. Absurdly, Napoleon handles the laws to his benefit forcing the animals to work until their deaths, being more dictator than Mr. …show more content…

For instance, the pigs take control showing a dangerous totalitarian system of government. Orwell thinks that the Russian Revolution of 1917 which finished the tsarist regime to claim the Bolshevik power into a government which concentrates total power in the hands of the autocrats. He wishes to persuade the audience to understand the complexity of Communism. It refers to a dream society under equality bases provided by one powerful ruler will lead to corruption manipulating misinformed and uneducated citizens most of the time. In the tale, the pigs seem to be highly educated using complicated and confused language to manipulate the animals. One can notice this aspect in this sentence where they switch a few words: "whatever goes upon four legs is a friend" to "whatever goes upon two legs, or has wings is a friend" to convince the distracted birds that their rights are secured under that kind of government. For example, the pigs are the only animals allowed to drink milk because they convince the rest of the animals that milk is absolutely necessary for them for avoiding Mr. Jones to come back. Napoleon uses the fear to control everything as using violent dogs to secure his leadership and uses Snowball as his scapegoat to route anger and responsibility away from

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