Language

• 'Four legs good, two legs bad'- Rhetoric

  Beliefs are reduced to simple slogans.

  These slogans play on the intellectual vulnerability of the people.

  These ideas are not representative.
• 'Four legs good, two legs bad'
• 'Comrades'- Unifying language

  Places everyone on the farm on an equal platter.

  The reality could not be more different.
• 'Comrades' Tanuki
• 'Substances', 'Management', 'Organisation'- Semantic field of the unknown

  The animals have no understanding of these complicated words.

  There is a limit to language.

  Our knowledge only stretches as far as our linguistic ability.
• 'Substances', 'Management', 'Organisation'
• 'Strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half'- Irony

  Pigs try to make it seem like what they are doing is justified.

  They have full control of the proletariat as they control language in society.
• 'Strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half'
• 'It was certainly true that nothing of the kind existed in writing'- Symbolism

  Writing is written language, the truth.

  What is written has happened.

  The animals are unable to read so are unable to see the truth.
• 'It was certainly true that nothing of the kind existed in writing'
• 'With sheets'- Symbolism

  Added to one of the 7 commandments to expose how animalism has been subverted.

  Since it is a commandment, it is a forever 'truth'.
• 'With sheets'
• 'Two hundred percent, three hundred percent, or five hundred percent'- Hyperbole

  The animals see word as truth as they do not have the capability to understand lying.

  Deep down, they know that their food supplies are decreasing.
• 'Two hundred percent, three hundred percent, or five hundred percent'
• 'No animal shall drink alcohol to excess'- Irony

  Alcohol is a human image.

  Animalism has been twisted, no ideology anymore.

  There is a degradation at the end of each chapter.
• 'No animal shall drink alcohol to excess'
• 'Files', 'Reports', 'Minutes' and 'Memoranda'- Semantic field of futility

  These humanistic ideals have no meaning.

  They are used to make it seem like the elite have a purpose.
• 'Files', 'Reports', 'Minutes' and 'Memoranda'
• 'All animals are equal'- Irony

  When the pigs' control is at their highest, the pigs still believe what they are told to believe.

  The animals could not be less equal.
• 'All animals are equal'
• 'Teaching them a new song'- Motif of chants and slogans

  Language is used as a physical cover up to anything that the pigs shall do.

  It is repeated by the masses, disguising true totalitarian purpose.
• 'Teaching them a new song'
• 'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'- Irony

  The commandments which led the animals have metaphorically and literally disappeared.

  Animalism has died.
• 'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'