Rhetoric is central to the novel Animal Farm because the whole idea of the book was to illustrate how previous leaders in Russia used rhetoric themselves to persuade the people. Using animals, George Orwell wrote his novel trying to show the reader how powerful rulers in Russia misled the Russian people. Rulers like Stalin and Trotsky persuaded the people by enticing them, so it would only make sense that Orwell would portray much of that in the book. It was essential for the author to use rhetoric to allow the reader to fully understand the entirety of history and the story. The uses of rhetoric in the novel show the reader how the leaders of Russia would twist words so that they would appeal to the crowds. Throughout the book, the character