ANIMAL FARM
20 phrases were the idea of language and power is present:
- "Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that i had last night."
- "I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it in my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired."
- "No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old."
- "The life of animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth."
- "Man is the only real enemy we have."
- "...Every drop of it has gone down the throats of our enemies."
- " But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end"
- " That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!"
- "It is all lies"
- "All animals are comrades"
- " All men are enemies"
- "...we must not come to resemble him."
- "... no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind"
- "... we are all brothers."
- "All animals are equal."
- "No animal in England is free"
- "Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."
- "You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk
have you given during this last year? ... Every drop of it has gone down
the throats of our enemies"
- "Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever."
- "Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own."
Old Mayor shows the power that he have through his way of speaking to animals, like in sentence 9, 10, 11, 15, 16; because as a person who is reading his speech is able to think "Who gave him the right to decide by his own will what is good or bad for the animals of the farm?", also we can notice that animals are very submissive to anyone who give them an order or tries to take control of the situation and we can assure this with the fact that after the dead of Old Mayor no animal in the farm, in exception of the pigs, tried to take his place, and this proves that they using their intelligence over the rest of the animals provided power for them.
