Animal Farm Rhetorical Analysis

George Orwell appeals to pathos and uses imagery to give a satirical presentation of imperialism, showing it’s negative impact on both those governed and those who govern. Throughout the entire essay, the narrator expresses various feelings of hatred, fear, anxiety, and doubt. He resents the fact that hs is in a position of authority, yet mocked. He resents that he is forced to continue his career despite the fact that he detests British imperialism.

Overtime Napoleon changes these commandments, for example he changed it to “four legs good, two legs better!”(Doc. A excerpt 3, Animal Farm Chapter 10), instead of “four legs good, two legs bad”. He also renamed the farm, Manor Farm; the original name. In the beginning all of the animals wanted to be free from the humans, but the the pigs slowly started morphing to human ways. Eventually they changed the seventh commandment to “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS”(Doc

Clover pictured of what her version (by the author) of Animal Farm was, and she considered freedom. A society of animals that are all equal, the stronger animals would protect the weaker ones, and they didn’t have to suffer from hunger or Mr. Jones’ whip. Unfortunately like the passage suggests, it is nothing like that. The pigs are no better than the Jones; In fact they are worse since they do not show any remorse or feeling for the treatment of the rest of the

In both American politics and Animal Farm, the fortunate and privileged are the ones who run the show. Prior to the Animal Farm rebellion, “The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals.” (Orwell, 15). Pigs were regarded as the most special of the farm’s inhabitants, similar to how the wealthy are viewed as being the “chosen ones” in the United States. Throughout the novel, as the pigs gain more control, and they use their influence and the other animal’s admiration as their tool to control what laws are being made.

The PETA ad in "Child Abiuse" is an ineffective rhetoric. The picture shows a girl eating a cheeseburger, saying "feeding kids meat is child abuse". Under that sign in small print says, "fight the fat, go vegan; peta". This shows the ad is not about children at all, it 's about animals. They are trying to convince people to stop eating meat, in order to save animals.

Even though the pigs changed the commandments to fit their needs, the animals still followed the rules because they did not want to return to the way it was when the humans ruled.

This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism.”. Throughout the book the commandments are changed to fit the pigs lifestyle. Animalism was supposed to be used to keep one animal from having more, or less power than the others. One of the commandments states that “5. No animal shall drink alcohol.”.

The other animals did not really care too much that the pigs were in control, as all the other animals really cared about was that the humans did not have the power and the control over them. Just like when the pigs started to change the “Seven Commandments” the other animals really were not that fussed. In “The Truman Show” Truman hated all the power and control over his life as all he wanted was to be free and to be able to go to Fiji. In “Animal Farm” they did not care all the much about the power and control whereas in “The Truman Show” Truman hated it and that is why he tried so hard to get out of his puny little town called

Animal Farm Essay “When they finished their confession, the dogs promptly ripped their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess” (Orwell 33). This is an example of rhetoric in animal farm. Rhetoric is the use of persuasive talking or manipulation (Merriam). The rhetoric of use by the pigs is knowledge, The Seven Commandments, and threats, which allows the pigs to have control over all of the animals (Sparknotes).

Animal Farm is representation of how literacy can determine who has power over who because those who can’t read or write are seen as inferior and are taken advantage of. This concept is discussed through the following: changing the seven commandments, one of the original commandments read “No animal shall kill any other animal.” But after the pigs changed it, it read “No animal shall kill any other animal without reason” (Orwell, 97). In other words, the pigs knew the other animals did not know how to read and that they have bad memory. Due to the animals basically being illiterate the pigs used that to their advantage so they do not have to worry about being questioned.

But as the months go on, the pigs change them to their benefit, giving them more power and luxury. The quote, “when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered that the Sixth Commandment decreed ‘No animal shall kill any other animal’... Muriel read the commandment for her. It ran: ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause’,”(Orwell 98) shows that the pigs obviously change the commandment before the other animals got a chance to read it. This happens more times as the book goes on, and shows the pigs abusing their power by changing the commandments to fit their actions and desires.

This relates to the theme because, throughout the story, the pigs have been in charge because they have more knowledge than the other animals. They were also really clever and could think of a way around every difficulty the farm experienced. ( Orwell 13) In the middle of the story, some crucial rules were being changed and the animals did not do anything about it. “ … pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing-room as a recreation room, but also slept in the beds.”

In chapter 2 page 9, the pigs comes up with the idea of seventh commandment, where the number 7 says “All animal are equal”. However, in chapter 10 the end of page 51 and start of page 52, the Pigs says “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” This quote shows that, a society hypocrisy

Animal Farm is a book about farm animals who no longer wish to serve as “slaves” to the humans, and have accepted the fact that they must start a revolution in order to successfully become free animals, away from all human contact and human ways of living. However, as expected there is always one person that craves the power, superiority and ambition. Throughout the short novel, I was shocked how relative these political allegories were to both our past and present lives. Three chapters stood out to me the most, one being chapter 2 which revolved around introducing the seven commandments, chapter 6, which sees the first revision of a commandment behind everyone’s back, and chapter 10 which ends with the animals no longer telling the difference

All members of the community would have to contribute equally in terms of labor. As well, the leader would operate his power prudently and without abuse or exploitation. In “Animal Farm”, animals are treated with injustice based on their identities, which serves as a typical example of the hierarchy of the human society. On the top of the social hierarchy pyramid is Napoleon, followed by the other pigs, then the dogs, and finally the rest of the animals. This social inequity is established by the educational opportunities that are only provided for pigs and by the amount of labor appointed to the rest of the animals, which is significantly higher than that of the dogs and pigs.