Ethos, Logos and Pathos
Reverend Charles Caleb Colton, a writer of pros and poetry, once said, “Corruption is like a ball of snow, once its set a rolling, it must increase”. Once corruption has started, there is so many people involved, greed sets in, and it’s so big of a problem it is so hard to stop it or leave it alone, and once you’re in too deep it’s difficult to get out. Under those circumstances, a book called “Animal Farm”, by George Orwell, was an allegory. It was published on the heels of World War II in England in 1945 and in the United States in 1946. The book was written during the war as a cautionary short story in order to expose the dangers presented by Stalinism and Totalitarian Government. With this intention, the pigs on Animal Farm used the three modes of persuasion to manipulate the other animals on the farm.
We begin with the mode of Pathos, Squealer in Chapter 5 uses fear to persuade the animals to do what he says. In one conversation he has with the animals he says, “One false step, and our enemies would be upon us. Surely comrades, you don’t want Jones back?”. In addition, at the end of Chapter 5 Squealer used a form of hatred to convince the animals that Napoleon came up with the idea of building the windmill and used a lie stating it was a “tactic” to get rid of Snowball. Squealer also used fear to intimidate the animals with growling dogs, “the animals were not certain what the word (tactic) meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions”. Coming into the last piece of evidence in Pathos, Chapter 6 states a storm came over the farm, and in the morning found the windmill they built destroyed. Napoleon used hatred to persuade the animals into thinking that Snowball came in the night and destroyed the windmill and he’s the enemy., “Do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know who the enemy who has came in the night and
We begin with the mode of Pathos, Squealer in Chapter 5 uses fear to persuade the animals to do what he says. In one conversation he has with the animals he says, “One false step, and our enemies would be upon us. Surely comrades, you don’t want Jones back?”. In addition, at the end of Chapter 5 Squealer used a form of hatred to convince the animals that Napoleon came up with the idea of building the windmill and used a lie stating it was a “tactic” to get rid of Snowball. Squealer also used fear to intimidate the animals with growling dogs, “the animals were not certain what the word (tactic) meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions”. Coming into the last piece of evidence in Pathos, Chapter 6 states a storm came over the farm, and in the morning found the windmill they built destroyed. Napoleon used hatred to persuade the animals into thinking that Snowball came in the night and destroyed the windmill and he’s the enemy., “Do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know who the enemy who has came in the night and