https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn Animal Farm Persuasion Project en-us 2021-03-04 18:59:52 UTC 2026-01-23 01:49:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f43d.png 24french_nathaniel https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283912532 In chapter one Old Major gives a speech about how animals are being heavily mistreated by man. "It is summed up in a single word-Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever." (7) The types of persuasion Old Major uses in this quote are repetition and emotive language]]> 2021-03-08 18:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283912532 24french_nathaniel https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283913633 In chapter two Snowball and the other pigs try to convince the other animals to stir to rebellion as well and the pigs are using too complex of arguments for the other animals to understand. "'Comrade,' said Snowball, 'those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?'" (17) When trying to convince the animals Snowball uses rhetorical questions which the animals seem to not quite understand.]]> 2021-03-08 18:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283913633 24french_nathaniel https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283914141 In chapter three the pigs start to assume control of leadership and they take food for themselves to which the animals quickly find out. Squealer tells the animals that they need the milk and apples to keep their strength up. "'It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades,' cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, 'surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?'" (36) In his speech Squealer uses fear and rhetorical questions to gain the animals support in the pigs having the milk and apples.]]> 2021-03-08 18:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283914141 24french_nathaniel https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283914637 In this chapter we get a look on what the humans are doing and they plot to attempt to recapture Animal Farm by brute force. Although there is not much talking throughout the chapter I believe the persuasion lies int the very few words but mostly actions Snowball performs. "Snowball now gave signal for the charge. He himself dashed straight for Jones. Jones saw him coming, raised his gun and fired. The pellets scored bloody streaks along Snowball's back, and a sheep dropped dead. Without halting for an instant, Snowball flung his fifteen stone against Jones' legs." (41-42) This is inspiring and emotive persuasion because Snowball rallies the troops with his example so the other animals are inspired to fight just as hard.]]> 2021-03-08 18:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283914637 24french_nathaniel https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283915112 In chapter five Snowball and Napoleon have a debate on who should make plans for the farm. Even though Napoleon is very quiet, it is a very heated debate. "Until now the animals had been about equally divided in their sympathies, but in a moment Snowball's eloquence had carried them away. In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labor was lifted from the animals' backs. His imagination had run far beyond chaff-cutters and turnip-slicers. Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with it's own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater. By the time he had finished speaking, there was no doubt as to which way the vote would go." (52) Snowball appeals to the animals interests and he uses emotive language.]]> 2021-03-08 18:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283915112 24french_nathaniel https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283915679 In chapter six after Napoleon takes over and chases Snowball out goes to sleep in Jones' house in a bed. The animals are suspicious of this until Boxer says his motto of "Napoleon is always right" which convinces everyone other than Clover who goes to check the commandments. As she reads them there seems to be a change in the rule about no beds but then Squealer walks by and tries to persuade her otherwise. "'The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention. We have removed the sheets from the farmhouse beds and sleep between blankets. And very comfortable beds they are too! But not more comfortable than we need, I can tell you, comrades, with all the brain work we have to do nowadays. You would not have us repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties? Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?'" (67) Squealer uses fear and logic to persuade Clover that the pigs need to sleep in beds.]]> 2021-03-08 18:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283915679 24french_nathaniel https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283916249 In chapter 7 there was a terrible storm that knocked down the windmill that the animals had been building for a while. Rather than accept his own fault of the windmill not being strong enough, Napoleon decided to set the blame on Snowball. "He would put his snout to the ground, give several deep sniffs, and exclaim in a terrible voice, 'Snowball! He has been here! I can smell him distinctly!' and at the word "Snowball" all the dogs let out blood-curdling growls and showed their side teeth." (78-79) Napoleon has already convinced the animals that Snowball was a traitor but he used the frightening presence of the dogs persuade the animals further.]]> 2021-03-08 18:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283916249 24french_nathaniel https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283917272 In chapter 8 the farm is starting to prosper again because of the animals work excluding the pigs. To reward "his" great work Napoleon has Minimus write a poem about him. "Napoleon approved of this poem and caused it to be inscribed on the wall of the big barn, at the opposite end from the Seven Commandments." (95) Napoleon is setting in the mind of the animals that he is just as important as the Seven Commandments and probably more so by putting his poem on the same metaphorical pedestal.]]> 2021-03-08 18:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283917272 24french_nathaniel https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283917840
When the animals heard of Boxer's death the animals saw him got taken away by a knacker truck they started to panic. Squealer came over and delivered a speech with a fake tear on how Boxer gave him his final words on his death bed. "And at the end, almost to weak to speak, he whispered in my ear that his sole sorrow was to have passed on before the windmill was finished. 'Forward, comrades!' he whispered. 'Forward in the name of the Rebellion. Long live Animal Farm! Long live Comrade Napoleon! Napoleon is always right'." (124) Squealer is lying about being there for Boxer and he is using Boxer's fictional last words to promote Napoleon even more. He then goes on to explain that the knacker truck was recently bought by a vet and that the animals should feel ashamed of thinking about the knacker. He also explains how Napoleon payed very much for Boxer's medical expense but they manage to buy whiskey by the end of the night. This is propaganda because everything Squealer is using emotions of Boxer's death to make Napoleon look better.

]]> 2021-03-08 18:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1283917840 24french_nathaniel https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1299884126 In chapter ten Napoleon has shut out any chance of any animal starting another rebellion and has established to the animals that still remember that there is no hope. The animals work hard yet they are underfed and sickly. However, the pigs and dogs are quite the opposite. "But still, neither the pigs nor the dogs produced any food by their own labor; and there were very many of them, and their appetites were always good." (130) Although there is not much propaganda in this chapter, the pigs almost no longer need it because the animals are so used to their condition that they don't question the pigs authority.]]> 2021-03-11 19:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/24french_nathaniel/i5cwwfjw8wmpzyyn/wish/1299884126