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Ethos And Logos In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'

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In evaluating Animal Farm it uses all three forms of persuasion. Pathos is the appeal to emotions, ethos is the appeal to credibility and logos is the appeal to logic. A chief example of pathos in this novella is Boxer who supported the dream of Animalism and gets sent to the slaughterhouse in exchange for whiskey. Orwell accomplishes ethos by making the book believable in the scene of some humans manipulate and deceive others, so we can believe the pigs would perform the same way. Orwell introduces logos in Animal Farm with every speech the pigs produce as they use logic behind their ideas of Animalism. Formally, learning from the book I understand that living under those conditions must have been hard, tiring, and unfortunate especially for
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