Use Of Persuasion And Ideology In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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In the novel Animal Farm written by “George Orwell” one of the main characters, Napoleon uses the power of persuasion and ideology in chapters eight and nine of the story in order to go against what many of the animals believe in. In doing so, these animals aren't really aware of what’s happening and usually keep to themselves. One of the bigger examples of this that I noticed took place towards the beginning of chapter eight when the author points out that one of the commandments had supposedly been changed from “No animal shall kill any other animal” to “No animal shall kill any other animal without cause”. Those two extra words at the end had seemingly just slipped out of the animal's memory but when in reality was changed due to the occurrences

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