Rhetorical Analysis Of George Orwell's Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a story created by George Orwell, which explains through an allegory the time in Russian history up until 1944. It is an ironic story devised as an animal fable. George Orwell was able to present his focus using unpretentious figurative terms through this fable, by treating the progress of communism as a story that is happening in a farm with talking animals. The characters of this fable are used to symbolize figures in the Russian history throughout the Russian Revolution, therefore, places, objects, and events of the revolution are also represented in this story. Animal Farm represents Russia and the Soviet Union under a communist party rule. Animal Farm possesses the internal composition of a nation, with a government, the pigs, a police force or army, the dogs, and a working class, other animals.

Orwell was also able to use rhetorical components throughout his story.

For example, rhetoric is used during Napoleon's rise to power. It’s used to preserve the animals, minus the pigs, from comprehending the chasm amid what really is happening and what they want to happen. They are therefore somewhat obsequious concerning Napoleon. Napoleon uses Squealer to extend his propaganda. Squealer, being very melodious and eloquent, can effortlessly get the animals to trust and pursue Napoleon's unorthodox laws and desires. They don't grasp how disastrous their fate will become by doing this. Some other examples of rhetorical components in George Orwell’s Animal Farm are these:

"You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in spirit of selfishness?"

"without success to get us defeated and destroyed at the battle of the cowshed’’

"Surely no one wants to see Jones come

back?"

The way that the story was also developed leads me to believe that Orwell was indeed successful with applying allegory into the book. Through the use of allegory, Orwell was able to effectively speak his mind about this historical event, given that through humor and parallelism, I was able to understand the absurdity of it in a more clear and entertaining method, rather than just receiving regular facts through the book. Orwell's satire also grants the audience the ability to see the absurdity of Communism. This story creates a fairly effective allegory to clarify the historical event. Orwell is also able to establish an ironic tone that emphasizes the idea of pig-like leaders who change into their prior oppressors. In the end, the pigs resemble the men, who symbolize the capitalists, to the degree that the animals were no longer able tell them apart.