Rhetorical Analysis Of Old Major Speech In Animal Farm

the barn, the animals waited for Old Major, a prize winning middle white boar and highly respected animal on the farm, to hear of his strange dream the night before. IN his dream old major talks of all animals being free and living in harmony and unity. Old major calls on his “comades” to raise against the humans in revolt. He believes he can achieve this dream by convincing the animals of the wickdness of humans. Througout this speech, he uses different types of proporanga. such as fear mongering and hasty generliaztion.

old major tries to use the animals fear of slavery and unhappiness to turn the animals against jones. He explains to the animals of Manor Farm what will happen when “[their] usefulness comes to and end” and telling them