Animal Farm Language Analysis

George Orwell’s compelling novel Animal Farm takes place in a “utopian” society where animals have taken control over their own lives. The novel represents the rhetoric of the Russian Revolution and an indirect criticism towards communist governments. Mr. Jones is an abusive human who the animals despise and incites them to have rebellious ideas. Napoleon, a peculiar pig who is immediately prominent from the rest, takes the power. His goal is to make an equalitarian community where all the creatures all given the same prosperity. However, some animals seem to be more equal than others. One possible message the novel wants to portray is that there is never true equality because somebody has to have power. Notably since the beginning of …show more content…
Particularly, Squealer was of great eloquence as stated at the commencing of the book. “He was a brilliant talker, and when arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive. The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white.” Since the very start the pigs had more odds in their favor; due to the fact that Squealer was an immense fan of Napoleon and made sure all the animals traced his orders down to detail. His abilities are expressed when convincing the animals regarding Napoleon’s actions towards the windmill. “That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill… He repeated a number of times, ‘Tactics, comrades, tactics!’ skipping round and whisking his tail with a merry laugh. The animals were not certain what the word meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions.” This exhibits that there was no real equality because the pigs had to use sovereignty over language to convince the others of their …show more content…
While this is a good point, because Mr. Jones was abusing the animals and made their work only his gain, it fails to account for Napoleon becoming a revamped version of Mr. Jones. The animals were seeking for freedom and a life where what they produced they earned. Old Mayor initiated fomenting the revolution and with his death the throne was left without a king. As a result, when he died Napoleon took control of the farm and the animals started perceiving alterations. Withal, the urge for power from the pigs created a vast divergence between animals. Napoleon takes advantage of others’ innocence to get a product out of them. Squealer changed the Seven Commandments on countless occasions to promote the pigs’ actions. “...reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong…”. This commandment was tweaked to justify the pigs drinking of alcohol. Additionally, the concluding statement in the book states, “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which.” That evidence demonstrated the monsters the pigs became over the course of the novel. They were just like humans, nothing had really changed. Their intentions were ones of honest virtue comparable to the ones of any communist government. However, in the