Animal Farm

• topic sentence 1


  In the allegorical novel of Animal farm control is expressed through the use of violence to silence the animals.
• The dogs are shown to be violent and incited to attack snowball


  "They dashed straight for Snowball"
• the dogs are shown to be primal contrasting from before indoctrination


  "The dogs tore the pigs throat out"
• this shows the direct address to the atmosphere of nerve and horror within the animals.


  "'The air was heavy with the smell of blood"
• paragraph 1 - context

  The purges of the animals and the dogs link allegorically to the NKVD, a Russian secret service group who were known to kill any suspicion, due to Stalin's hateful paranoia.
• topic sentence 2


  In Animal Farm Napoleon maintains control through the manipulation of the animals.
• this shows how squealer could twist one story into another to push a message

  "The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white."
• this rhetorical technique used by squealer helps to undermine the tyrannical nature of Napoleons current regime


  "Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?'"
• this shows how Squealer can almost put conspiracy to sleep along with the animals


  "Afterwards Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals' minds at rest.'"
• paragraph 2 - context

  Squealer is allegorically linked to the pravda machine and stalin's propaganda
• topic sentence 3


  Continually Napoleon embeds this control through the scapegoating of Snowball
• Napoleon shows Snowballs name after the rhetorical technique to cleverly direct suspicion towards Snowball


  "Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!' "
• Napoleon attempts to create a united enemy of the animals as Snowball to control any attempt at rebellion


  "We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot undo our work so easily"
• shows how the "us vs them" mentality is forced upon the animals by consistently attributing wrongdoings to Snowball


  "Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball."
• paragraph 3 - context

  Snowball represents Leon Trotsky who was an opposition to Stalin who is linked to Napoleon, Leon Trotsky became expelled from the USSR and eventually assassinated.

  Under Stalin's command.