As any historian could confirm, the way to understand history is to recognize the patterns. Without even knowing it, people fall into situations like puppets on a string, doomed to repeat the pattern everyone else before them has. By that standard, there are some facts: despite every attempt to find or create equality, the strong make their way to the top, usually by standing on the bodies of the weaker ones abused to get there. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, animals fall into the hateful cycles of humans they once despised and form an unbalanced and corrupt hierarchy. With the use of passive voice, questioning, and personable word choices, Animal Farm forms subtle themes of manipulative control and the power of perception of circumstances.
The dominating pigs in Animal Farm use the syntax and diction choices of passive voice, rhetorical questioning, and manipulative words to control the lower animals. As the pigs grew tyrannical and begin to instill fear in other animals, they spread rumors of the enemy Snowball, rumoring that “every night, it was said, he came creeping in under the cover of …show more content…
Animal Farm’s struggles with social hierarchy, political dominance, and different ideas of what the balance of nature is echo happenstances throughout all history, and the major plot runs the same: nothing ever really changes. People (or animals) can change how they think about things, and they may feel like things have changed, but there is always a delicate balance between good and bad, yet nothing is truly black or white. Animal Farm merely expands on the idea that not only does nothing change, but in the end we all have the seed of corruption within us waiting to blossom at the right
The dominating pigs in Animal Farm use the syntax and diction choices of passive voice, rhetorical questioning, and manipulative words to control the lower animals. As the pigs grew tyrannical and begin to instill fear in other animals, they spread rumors of the enemy Snowball, rumoring that “every night, it was said, he came creeping in under the cover of …show more content…
Animal Farm’s struggles with social hierarchy, political dominance, and different ideas of what the balance of nature is echo happenstances throughout all history, and the major plot runs the same: nothing ever really changes. People (or animals) can change how they think about things, and they may feel like things have changed, but there is always a delicate balance between good and bad, yet nothing is truly black or white. Animal Farm merely expands on the idea that not only does nothing change, but in the end we all have the seed of corruption within us waiting to blossom at the right