Manipulation In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'

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Essay: Khadija Wahib 705

Book/text: Animal farm by: George Orwell

Poem: Dreams by: Langston Hughes

The power of language. It can make people do anything. Manipulation. It can make you wanna do anything. uplift . It can make you do evil or do good. But which one is more powerful?, the power of language that uplifts or the power of language that manipulates and controls?.I believe the most powerful way of using language is to manipulate people or in this case animals.

In the book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, it shows the power of language and how it's used in a way of manipulation. In the poem “Dreams” by langston Hughes, however, it shows the power of language used in an uplifting/inspiring kind of way. But I feel that the power

For example throughout the book Napoleon and Squealer had tricked the animals into believing the lies they told and actually thinking they were doing the right thing. On page 91 which states “Some of the animals remembered-or thought they remembered-that the sixth commandment decreed ‘no animal shall kill any other animal’.......muriel read the commandment for her. It ran : ‘no animal shall kill any other animal without cause’ . Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals’ memory. But they saw now that the commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was good reason for killing the traitors who had leagued themselves with snowballs”. This shows how this is more powerful because the animals let it slide after they were fooled about what was written on the wall, because in the book Napoleon would paint the wall and change the commandments and the animals didn't notice and thought nothing of it when two words were added. So in the end they let the death of those innocent animals slide by. Another example is when a boxer was sent to the “hospital” by the pigs in order to heal but when the animals saw that the van had the words horse slaughterer on it the animals were freaking out. That's when squealer let out a speech on pages 124-125 It states “three days later it was announced that he had died in the hospital at Willingdon.....it had come to his knowledge , he said, that a foolish and wicked rumor had been circulated at that time of boxer's removal. Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took the boxer away was marked 'horse slaughterer' and had actually jumped to the conclusion that the boxer was being sent to the knackers…. Surely, he cried indignantly, whisking his tail and skipping from side to side, surely they knew their beloved leader, comrade Napoleon, better than that? But the explanation was very simple. The van had previously been the property of