the barn‚ the animals waited for Old Major‚ a prize winning middle white boar and highly respected animal on the farm‚ to hear of his strange dream the night before. IN his dream old major talks of all animals being free and living in harmony and unity. Old major calls on his “comades” to raise against the humans in revolt. He believes he can achieve this dream by convincing the animals of the wickdness of humans. Througout this speech‚ he uses different types of proporanga. such as fear mongering
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Old Major: As the father of Animalism‚ Old Major is an obvious counterpart for Karl Marx‚ or‚ in some cases‚ Vladimir Lenin (Old Major’s skull was publicly shown in a similar way as Lenin’s remains were). Orwell did not mention Napoleon or Snowball at all during the speech Old Major gave on Animalism‚ showing how out-of-touch they actually were with him. It seems that the pigs took Old Major’s ideas and twisted them to their own belief. This could mirror how Stalin (Napoleon) ignored what Old Major
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Old Major’s Speech In the first chapter of the novel‚ Old Major gave a speech that lingered in the mind of the farm animals. His choice of words was very precise in expressing what he meant. He amalgamated quite a number of different language techniques in order to convey his ideas. The speech made the other animals understand the situation they were actually in and eager to do something to make Old Major’s dreams and hopes for all of them a realization. Old Major was very old; old enough
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Old major persuades the animals to believe in his ideals by manipulating them. The language he uses is very manipulative and he always refer the animals to ‘Comrades’ which means friend or someone who is trusted‚ which catches their attention and persuade them. This also foreshadows what happens in the Russian Revolution where Lenin persuades the Russian people that the country should be a communist country. ‘I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom’ This implies that the message he’s going
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Although Animal Farm has to deal with animals it also relates to human life. This is how‚ In Animal Farm they do not like to be mistreated by their owner as all of us do. All of the character in this book feel that they have been mistreated by Mr.Jones who is the drunk owner for all these animals. Old major is the character that I relate to the most. Old Major is an old boar whose speech about the evils perpetrated by humans roused the animals into rebelling. His philosophy concerning the tyranny
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Old Major’s speech was an important event in this chapter. He had set the commandments. Telling all the animals he wouldn’t be alive much longer‚ but to follow whoever the new animal leader was. And telling the animals that anything that had walked on two legs was evil‚ saying man was evil‚ no good. He said anything with four legs or wings is a comrade‚ all animals are to be treated equally. They had also sung the song “Beast of England” a song saying how life would be without man. All of the animals
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How effective is Old Major’s speech in chapter one? In Chapter one‚ Old Major gives a speech about how the animals should rebel against Mr Jones‚ the human and leader of the farm in order to please all of the animals by having satisfactory amounts of the essentials. This rebellion would lead into Animalism. Animalism represents communism and how all animals should be equal. Old Major symbolizes Lenin. Lenin was a revolutionary thinker who came up with the basic concept of the Russian Revolution
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Critical Essays Major Themes of Animal Farm Satire Satire is loosely defined as art that ridicules a specific topic in order to provoke readers into changing their opinion of it. By attacking what they see as human folly‚ satirists usually imply their own opinions on how the thing being attacked can be remedied. Perhaps the most famous work of British satire is Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726)‚ where the inhabitants of the different lands Gulliver visits embody what Swift saw as the
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George Orwell‚ Animal Farm - “Old Major’s Speech” 1. Who is Old Major? Why does his address the animals? In the story Old Major is a meritorious hog‚ thanks to all the prizes he got on several exhibitions other animals hold him in high esteem‚ as he is clever‚ smart and calm. His age gives him a supremacy in experience over his companions. He calls a meeting to discuss a strange dream he had and as a kind of authority elucidates how unfairly‚ cruelly and sorely all animals are treated
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a Dream” speech and Old Major’s speech in “Animal Farm” have many similarities with some contrasting presenting skills. Some of the qualities that the two speeches share include what they’re fighting for‚ the wisdom they both share‚ and they want freedom for future generations‚ not just for themselves. They also share many rhetorical strategies involving ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos along with some propaganda forms. Although these speeches have much in common‚ they
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