Animal Farm Info./Explan. Essay Abuse of Language Theme
Chelsea Valdez
Mrs. Schenck
English 10A
22 September 2013
Animal Farm Info./Explan. Essay Have you ever thought that if all the students at your school worked together to overthrow the whole staff, all would be equal? What if all the students with a 4.0 GPA took the lead? In the novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, a seemingly normal farm in England inhabits a group of animals preparing to rebel against the human race. With the hopes of gaining a world of freedom and equality, the animals make room for the cleverest animals, the pigs, to lead them in the right direction. However, not everything is going as planned when what seemed to be the truth turned out to be lies. Because of the large brain capacity the pigs possess, a recurring theme of abuse of language was shown throughout the novel. Squealer, one of the pigs, is the main propagandist in the story. He shows up often to give the other animals the correct information, or lies, pertaining to their new government in the pigs’ favor. “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?” (52). This is the beginning of Squealer’s long streak of propaganda, where his goal is to convince the less clever animals that the pigs are not keeping the windfall apples to themselves just because they want them. Although he knows that that is the sole reason they are keeping them, he and the pigs’ higher privileges depend on the animals’ small brain capacity. With that mindset, they continued to deceive the animals to make themselves out to be good leaders. When Napoleon drove away Snowball, another potential leader, from the farm, he took credit for his idea of building a windmill to lessen the animals’ labor and “seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball”, making him out to be a bad influence with the help of Squealer who simply describes Napoleon’s action a “tactic.” With this in mind, Squealer is an important figure in the story’s
Mrs. Schenck
English 10A
22 September 2013
Animal Farm Info./Explan. Essay Have you ever thought that if all the students at your school worked together to overthrow the whole staff, all would be equal? What if all the students with a 4.0 GPA took the lead? In the novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, a seemingly normal farm in England inhabits a group of animals preparing to rebel against the human race. With the hopes of gaining a world of freedom and equality, the animals make room for the cleverest animals, the pigs, to lead them in the right direction. However, not everything is going as planned when what seemed to be the truth turned out to be lies. Because of the large brain capacity the pigs possess, a recurring theme of abuse of language was shown throughout the novel. Squealer, one of the pigs, is the main propagandist in the story. He shows up often to give the other animals the correct information, or lies, pertaining to their new government in the pigs’ favor. “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?” (52). This is the beginning of Squealer’s long streak of propaganda, where his goal is to convince the less clever animals that the pigs are not keeping the windfall apples to themselves just because they want them. Although he knows that that is the sole reason they are keeping them, he and the pigs’ higher privileges depend on the animals’ small brain capacity. With that mindset, they continued to deceive the animals to make themselves out to be good leaders. When Napoleon drove away Snowball, another potential leader, from the farm, he took credit for his idea of building a windmill to lessen the animals’ labor and “seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball”, making him out to be a bad influence with the help of Squealer who simply describes Napoleon’s action a “tactic.” With this in mind, Squealer is an important figure in the story’s