Animal Farm Part 7 Rhetoric

Themes

A theme is an idea that runs throughout a text. In Animate being Subcontract, the themes of class, equality and inequality, and ability and control are explored.

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Power and control in Animal Farm

Still of Farmer Jones with a gun, from the 1954 film

Farmer Jones tried to continue the animals under control

Ability and control is one of the about important themes in Animal Farm . Orwell explores political power - Mr Jones owns the farm and the animals and uses his men and whips to keep them under control and maintain his power.

Orwell shows that the animals take the ability to challenge Mr Jones' command and take over the farm - using ability in a positive way. He and then explores how the pigs use rhetoric and propaganda to establish themselves in power and take command of the farm. It is interesting that the working animals, especially Boxer the horse, have great concrete power just they don't utilise information technology to break free from the control of the pigs.

Old Major is partly based on Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Karl Marx, was a German philosopher who lived during the 19th-century. His ideas formed the basis of communism - his ideas are collectively known every bit 'Marxism', like 'Animalism' in the novel. He developed theories on how power structures in society go on people nether control. Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary who established a grade of 'Marxism' in Russian federation in the early 20th-century.

Orwell explores the idea of ability leading to corruption. Many of the characters in the novel are eventually corrupted by the power they have, specially the pigs, every bit they manipulate their position of leadership to exploit other animals.

How is the theme of power and control shown in the novel?

In Fauna Farm , Orwell explores power and control through:

Mr Jones exploiting his power and treating the animals badly
the rebellion and how the animals use their ability to take over the farm
the pigs and how they cleverly control the other animals

	How does Orwell testify this?	Show	Analysis
Mr Jones	Former Major teaches the animals a song chosen Beasts of England in response to Mr Jones treating them badly. The song is nearly animals overthrowing human being and being free.	Bit and spur shall rust forever, Cruel whips no more shall crack .	The animals sing about the devices Mr Jones uses to go on his power . The 'bit and spur' and 'whips' are used to cruelly keep the animals under control.
The rebellion	The animals fight back against the men and take control of the farm.	...this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating only as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits .	The animals surprise the men with their 'sudden' modify in behaviour - it frightens the men to see the animals using their power .
The pigs taking control	The pigs accept accuse and brainstorm to command the other animals. Napoleon uses Squealer and the dogs to stop the animals' questions nearly the windmill.	Grunter spoke and then persuasively, and the 3 dogs who happened to be with him growled then threateningly, that they accustomed his caption without farther questions .	Betwixt Squealer being so 'persuasive' and the dogs so 'threatening' the pigs command the animals by preventing them questioning their decisions.

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Question

How does Orwell explore power and control in Animal Farm ?

Mr Jones uses his ability over the animals. It is suggested that Mr Jones uses concrete violence to maintain control of the animals - they sing about the 'crack' of his whip in the vocal 'Beasts of England'.
The animals use their own power to take control of the subcontract. They gang upwardly on Mr Jones and his men and physically kick them off the subcontract.
The pigs utilise the power of voice communication or rhetoric to maintain their control of the other animals.
Napoleon uses fear to control the farm.

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