Conner Koe – 1330997Jessica SwainEnglish 1A03 – Tutorial 2820 March 2014The ability to understand and use language effectively is undoubtedly one of the best tools you can possess when communicating. Language allows individuals to interact comprehensively, giving them the means to relate, transfer ideas, share stories, etc. The use of language has often been used throughout history as a method to positively motivate and inspire groups of people in a necessary state of change. This is the case at the beginning of George Orwell's famous novel Animal Farm. Throughout the novel, Orwell emphasizes how powerful and persuasive language can be, as well as the manipulation of language. This power becomes immediately evident in the novel when old Major gives his prophetic final speech, inspiring the animals to rise up and rebel against the farm owner Jones and the rest of the human race. But as Orwell also demonstrates in the novel, language manipulation can also have a negative effect, particularly when the subjects of such manipulation do not have in-depth knowledge of the language in question. The power of such manipulation becomes evident later in the story, when Napoleon uses Squealer in several instances to spread propaganda and distort the context of language on the farm in order to increase dominance and maintain the pigs' authoritarian power over the other animals. Through the events and the use of his characters within the story, Orwell highlights how language can become an instrument of power. He highlights how it can be used as a positive method of motivation and how, in the absence of suitable owners, it can be used to manipulate others to gain control. Orwell immediate... in the center of the paper.... ..s again with a false scenario, “Here Squealer seemed very cunning. This, he said, was Comrade Napoleon's cunning. He seemed to have opposed the windmill, simply as a ploy to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence... 'Tactics, comrades, tactics!'” (39) Squealer convinces the animals that Snowball had originally stolen the windmill. Napoleon's plans, and that Napoleon's tactic was always to oppose the windmill before Snowball was expelled (39). It becomes apparent that the pigs rely on manipulating language so as to undermine any ideas against Napoleon and deceive the animals into believing that they are loved and treated justly by their leaders. Clarinet constantly manifests in the animals the idea that Napoleon sacrificed everything for them. them, that he loves them all deeply and would never lie about the commandments.