Animal Farm Essay
Leaders use many types of persuasion to gain control. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Old Major, Snowball, and Squealer control the animals by inserting fear into their minds. Although all speakers give many speeches that include ethos, logos, and pathos, Squealer’s use of pathos is the most effective form of persuasion. Old Major’s rebellion speech uses ethos and pathos as rhetorical appeals; Snowball’s windmill speech focuses on logos; however, Squealer’s appeal to pathos in his apple and milk speech gains the most desired reactions.
Old Major’s only speech was all about the rebellion. His goal was to motivate the animals to break free from humans and function as their own and work for themselves. In his speech, he …show more content…
In one of the arguments Snowball had with Napoleon about the windmill, he said, “This was just the place for the windmill, which could be made to operate a dynamo and supply the farm with electrical power ”(54). Snowball attempts to connect to the animals by using logos making it seem logical to install the windmill, yet the whole farm is still deeply divided on the subject. If Snowball is the most persuasive speaker, a majority of the animals would agree to Snowball’s idea of installing the windmill. The animals’ reactions to Snowball’s speech are not nearly as promising as Squealer’s. In one of Squealer’s speeches about the apples he says, "Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty?Jones would come back!Yes, Jones would come back!"(42). Squealer uses pathos in this example, scaring the animals by threatening the chance of Jones coming back if the pigs cannot function properly. It is effective because after his speech Orwell writes, “Now if there was one thing that was certain of, it was that they did not want Jones to come back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say”(43). The reactions show that the animals don’t disagree with Squealer, and he really knows how to use pathos effectively, gaining the result he wanted. Snowball’s speech just uses logos, showing how it was logical to install the windmill. Pathos has more of …show more content…
Animals said themselves that “Squealer could turn black to white”(26). Squealer controls the animals using propaganda and fear. When Boxer is being sent to be killed all the animals cannot believe it. Yet, Squealer comes to explain to them that “the car had been previously owned by the knacker,and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon”(115). He is using logos to convince the animals that Boxer is being sent to treatment, claiming it was logically something other than the glue factory. The “animals were enormously relieved to hear this” (115).This shows they completely believed it without any suspicion. Among Squealer’s verbal weapons, his most repeated one throughout the book was saying that Jones could come back if they didn’t listen to the pigs. Everytime he says this, this scares the animals into agreement with him while in the big picture, Napoleon is turning into Jones. Squealer is able to climb himself out of every hole he digs himself into by using his speeches, pointing the finger at everyone but
Leaders use many types of persuasion to gain control. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Old Major, Snowball, and Squealer control the animals by inserting fear into their minds. Although all speakers give many speeches that include ethos, logos, and pathos, Squealer’s use of pathos is the most effective form of persuasion. Old Major’s rebellion speech uses ethos and pathos as rhetorical appeals; Snowball’s windmill speech focuses on logos; however, Squealer’s appeal to pathos in his apple and milk speech gains the most desired reactions.
Old Major’s only speech was all about the rebellion. His goal was to motivate the animals to break free from humans and function as their own and work for themselves. In his speech, he …show more content…
In one of the arguments Snowball had with Napoleon about the windmill, he said, “This was just the place for the windmill, which could be made to operate a dynamo and supply the farm with electrical power ”(54). Snowball attempts to connect to the animals by using logos making it seem logical to install the windmill, yet the whole farm is still deeply divided on the subject. If Snowball is the most persuasive speaker, a majority of the animals would agree to Snowball’s idea of installing the windmill. The animals’ reactions to Snowball’s speech are not nearly as promising as Squealer’s. In one of Squealer’s speeches about the apples he says, "Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty?Jones would come back!Yes, Jones would come back!"(42). Squealer uses pathos in this example, scaring the animals by threatening the chance of Jones coming back if the pigs cannot function properly. It is effective because after his speech Orwell writes, “Now if there was one thing that was certain of, it was that they did not want Jones to come back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say”(43). The reactions show that the animals don’t disagree with Squealer, and he really knows how to use pathos effectively, gaining the result he wanted. Snowball’s speech just uses logos, showing how it was logical to install the windmill. Pathos has more of …show more content…
Animals said themselves that “Squealer could turn black to white”(26). Squealer controls the animals using propaganda and fear. When Boxer is being sent to be killed all the animals cannot believe it. Yet, Squealer comes to explain to them that “the car had been previously owned by the knacker,and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon”(115). He is using logos to convince the animals that Boxer is being sent to treatment, claiming it was logically something other than the glue factory. The “animals were enormously relieved to hear this” (115).This shows they completely believed it without any suspicion. Among Squealer’s verbal weapons, his most repeated one throughout the book was saying that Jones could come back if they didn’t listen to the pigs. Everytime he says this, this scares the animals into agreement with him while in the big picture, Napoleon is turning into Jones. Squealer is able to climb himself out of every hole he digs himself into by using his speeches, pointing the finger at everyone but