In George Orwell's Animal Farm, Old Major, a prize-winning white boar, summons all the animals at Manor Farm to the stable to make a speech. In his speech he wanted to convey a message to the other animals, explaining the cruelty of humanity, how they really are, based on his twelve-year experience. Proposing to make a Rebellion to confront humans for so much evil that they have done to animals. In his speech he uses rhetoric, Ethos and Pathos. He is known to use Ethos, as his speech is based on his years of experience, which he had on the farm. In the book he says, "I do not believe, comrades, that I will be with you many more months, and it seems to me that my duty, before I die, is to transmit to you the wisdom of a long life, I have had a lot of time to think while I was there in the pigsty, and I feel entitled to say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any other animal alive today." …show more content…
The other rhetoric he uses is pathos, he demonstrates it by using the feeling of fear to scare animals. For example in the novel he says, "As for the dogs, when they grow old and lose their teeth, Jones ties a brick around their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond." What this means is that the Old Commander said that to cause fear in the other animals, and to show what Mr. Jones can do to him if they don't make the rebellion. In summary of everything in George Orwell's Animal Farm, the Old Commander gathered everyone in the main stable, to tell him his experience of how humans are really, telling him how cruel humanity is with them. Also about his idea of making a Rebellion, so that they no longer be mistreated, that they can eat what they want and not work a lot anymore. I communicate it using rhetoric, ethos and