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    George Orwell's novel Animal Farm examines how language can be manipulated and abused as an instrument of control. The pigs in the novel gradually twist and distort the rhetoric of socialist revolution to justify their own behavior and keep the other animals unaware of their actions. By the end of the story, the principles of the farm have been openly changed to "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others," showing how the pigs increasingly abused language and ideals of equality to consolidate their power over the farm. Orwell's depiction of this abuse of language through the manipulation of meaning remains a compelling and enduring aspect of Animal Farm.

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    George Orwell's novel Animal Farm examines how language can be manipulated and abused as an instrument of control. The pigs in the novel gradually twist and distort the rhetoric of socialist revolution to justify their own behavior and keep the other animals unaware of their actions. By the end of the story, the principles of the farm have been openly changed to "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others," showing how the pigs increasingly abused language and ideals of equality to consolidate their power over the farm. Orwell's depiction of this abuse of language through the manipulation of meaning remains a compelling and enduring aspect of Animal Farm.

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    George Orwell's novel Animal Farm examines how language can be manipulated and abused as an instrument of control. The pigs in the novel gradually twist and distort the rhetoric of socialist revolution to justify their own behavior and keep the other animals unaware of their actions. By the end of the story, the principles of the farm have been openly changed to "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others," showing how the pigs increasingly abused language and ideals of equality to consolidate their power over the farm. Orwell's depiction of this abuse of language through the manipulation of meaning remains a compelling and enduring aspect of Animal Farm.

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    Animal Farm, George Orwell

    The Abuse of Language as Instrumental to the Abuse of Power


    One of Orwells central concerns, both in Animal Farm and in 1984, is the way in which
    language can be manipulated as an instrument of control. In Animal Farm,the pigs gradually
    twist and distort a rhetoric of socialist revolution to justify their behavior and to keep the other
    animals in the dark. The animals heartily embrace Majors visionary ideal of socialism, but
    after Major dies, the pigs gradually twist the meaning of his words. s a result, the other
    animals seem unable to oppose the pigs without also opposing the ideals of the !ebellion.
    "y the end of the novella, after #$uealers repeated reconfigurations of the #even
    %ommandments in order to decriminali&e the pigs treacheries, the main principle of the farm
    can be openly stated as 'all animals are e$ual, but some animals are more e$ual than
    others.( This outrageous abuse of the word 'e$ual( and of the ideal of e$uality in general
    typifies the pigs method, which becomes increasingly audacious as the novel progresses.
    Orwells sophisticated e)posure of this abuse of language remains one of the most
    compelling and enduring features of Animal Farm,worthy of close study even after we have
    decoded its allegorical characters and events.

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