Animal Farm Rhetorical Analysis

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There are three ways a community can be overthrown and taken into absolute control. Napoleon and Squealer at George Orwell’s Animal Farm use three strategic ways to keep the animals in control under their ruling. They bend language, propaganda, and truth to take control of the animals freedom by using small changes within the animals lives. Through the farm animals, it is shown that those in power will brainwash and manipulate others by twisting their reality into the truth. Language throughout Animal Farm is shown on almost every page of the book. The slogans that are used in animal farms are used repetitively so that the animals constantly use this as a chant to memorize. Napoleon animals will remember this every time they come across any …show more content…

The sheep start to repeat this slogan to all the animals on the farm. The Beasts of England, is the song that was created by Old Major, a pig who was introduced at the beginning of Animal Farm. Old Major creates this song in hopes to encourage the animals to rebel against Mr. Jones, the previous farm owner, who started a revolution. The song “Beasts of England” was the song of the Rebellion” (96) is what the animals were originally singing every night. This song is used against them because this leads Napoleon and Squealer to make the animals believe that everything they are doing, still justify the lyrics of this song. Squealer eventually announces that they have made a new song that only mentions how Napoleon is a great leader, causing the animals to believe this. The Beasts of England was heard no more, Napoleon created his own song called “Comrade Napoleon”. This concludes the fact that language is an important tactic that Napoleon and Squealer need in order to control the animals on Animal Farm. Propaganda is a constant theme throughout Animal Farm that is shown in various different ways, combining language and

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