Select at least 20 phrases where the idea of language and power is present, or that represents an appropiate choice of words to appeal the audience. Explain 5 of them. Explain how these ideas help motivate the rest of the animals. Make reference to the film when necessary. Add a picture related.
1) Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
2) No animal in England knows the meaning
of happiness or leisure after he
is a year old.
3) This
single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows,
hundreds of
sheep--and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are
now
almost beyond our imagining.
4) Why then do we continue in this miserable
condition? Because nearly the
whole of the produce of our labour is stolen
from us by human beings.
5) Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not
give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he
cannot
run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the
animals.
6) You cows that I see before me, how
many thousands of gallons of milk
have you given during this last year?
And what has happened to that milk which
should have been breeding up
sturdy calves?
7) And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how
many
of those eggs ever hatched into chickens? The rest have all gone to
market
to bring in money for Jones and his men.
8) And you, Clover, where are those
four foals you bore, who should have
been the support and pleasure of your
old age? Each was sold at a year
old--you will never see one of them
again.
9)But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end.
10) Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life
of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?
11) What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body
and soul, for the
overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you,
comrades: Rebellion!
12) Here is a point that must be settled. The wild
creatures, such as rats
and rabbits--are they our friends or our enemies?
Let us put it to the vote. I
propose this question to the meeting: Are
rats comrades?
13) Remove man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.
14) We are forced to work to the last atom of our strenght.
15) The answer to all our problems it is summed up in one word single word--Man.
16) Man serves the interests of no
creature except himself. And among us
animals let there be perfect unity,
perfect comradeship in the struggle.
17) We are born, we are given
just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us
who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength;
and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are
slaughtered with hideous cruelty.
18) No animal in England is
free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
19) Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.
20) I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months
longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom
as
I have acquired.
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1) "Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. "
He uses the words miserable, laborious, and short in the perfect way to help the animals to realize the real situation they were living.
3) "This
single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of
sheep--and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now
almost beyond our imagining."
Old Mayor uses an hyperbole to emphasize the situation and to make sure he gets the audience .
6) "You cows that I see before me, how
many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year?
And what has happened to that milk which should have been breeding up
sturdy calves?"
The rethorical question he uses, is to force the audience to think about it, that is why he did not just ask the cows, he asked every animal present in the barn in that moment, waiting no answer but waiting them to think and open their minds to what men were taking from then, and how much could they win with the revolution.
9) "But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end."
A metaphor, one of the most common rhetorical devices, which is used to convey the audience and force them to relate their fate with something like a cruel knife. In addition, the word cruel is used to make the metaphor even stronger.
15) "The answer to all our problems it is summed up in one word single word--Man."
The whole phrase is directed to a single word, man. The language is used in such a way, that the emphisize in the enemy is maximum.
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