Task: Re-read ch 5 online – how does Orwell/Squealer use language devices to convince the other animals that there are no problems on Animal Farm?
Task.
Squealer uses several rhetorical questions to help convince the other animals that there are no problems on Animal Farm. One example being ” Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?” By using the rhetorical question, this is convinving the animals as they are being made to feel that they should agree and that it is common to agree with Napoleon. This particular rhetorical question, you cannot directly reply no to as an animal.
Squealer uses little known vocabulary to convince the other animals that there are no problems on animal farm. “something
called tactics. He repeated a number of times, “Tactics, comrades,tactics!” This is making the animals feel that Napoleon is more superior and is of a higher status than all of them
Hello Henry,
We have discussed this paragraph in class already but I wanted to let you know that I feel your analysis has really grown over the last term and I am pleased with your ability to embed quotations and explore the atmosphere of the chapter/scene.
To develop this:
how does the use of the language device impact the reader’s interpretation of this character? Why?