How does George Orwell convey his thoughts and feelings to the reader in Animal Farm
How does George Orwell convey his thoughts and feelings to the reader? In your answer, refer to the language he use and the tone created. At the beginning of the text, we can see that Orwell is expressing his feelings by contrasting himself to the crowd. They are excited by the events that they hope will unfold whereas he lacks enthusiasm as highlighted in the phrase “It made me vaguely uneasy.” It is clear that Orwell is conveying his reluctance to shoot the elephant even though the gathering crowd is expecting that the elephant would be shot and this makes Orwell feel uncomfortable and concerned about his decision he would have to make as we can see in his choice of words such as: “feeling like a fool...The crowd would laugh at me.” Orwell also expresses his confusion over doing what is right and not losing face and he tells the reader with a serious tone that the crowd and his own morals are influencing his ideas and it is making him feel uncomfortable “pushed to and fro by the will of those face behind. I had got to shoot the elephant...But I did not want to shoot the elephant”. His thoughts are conveyed as sympathetic towards the elephant through the use of personal and condoling words; “that preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have...it would be murder to shoot him” which in turn supports the idea that he doesn’t want to shoot the elephant and that it is the pressure of others opinions “the people expected it of me”. Towards the end when it is nearly time for Orwell to shoot the elephant, his thoughts turn to his saftey. He presents his worry of missing the elephant and it charging for him by using the simile “as a toad under a steam-roller” but is more concerned about what the crowd would think of his “grinning corpse”- his focus is that he doesn’t want to be seen as a fool and this creates an urgent tone. When he shoots the elephant he sums up in a sense that the crowd has contrasted his final opinion “devilish roar” and