Animal Farm Controlling Language

The Power of Controlling Language Language has power and the speaker is presented with two options to use. Uplifting or controlling. Controlling is the more effective of the two, as it utilizes fear and lies to manipulate the victim. Uplifting language tries to persuade with positive remarks and is gentler to the audience. George Orwell stresses this thesis with Animal Farm, a story of rebellion and an allegorical story about a communist society that becomes corrupt. Animal Farm demonstrates controlling language’s most powerful aspects; fear and propaganda. These aspects appear in real sitiuations such as advertisements, poetry, and world leaders and are expertly illustrated in Animal Farm. Controlling language is manipulative and deceptive, and advertisers make full use of this. Advertisers apply controlling language expertly to sway your preferences, especially with children. “Even a 30-second exposure to a novel product, one that you’ve never seen before, changes their preference for brand,” said Professor Thomas Robinson, regarding advertising to preschoolers. This shows the power of controlling language, and how susceptible people can be, even though advertisements consist majorly of
If you can manipulate someone’s fear with sincere threats, then you have absolute control. George Orwell demonstrated fear’s power with the characters Napoleon and Squealer. Napoleon uses threats and his dogs to scare comrades into submission and obedience, and Squealer infuses the statement “Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?” ( p.80 ) to make his lies more convincing, a statement that worked effectively on the animals. Fear can also be applied more gently, such as in poems to enforce a warning. Langston Hughes’s poem Dreams is one example. An article by Kat Escher states this poem “influenced King’s (MLK’s) sermons on a fundamentsl level,” which is hardly a suprise since this poem’s use of fear is sure to motivate