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3. QPARK List instances in the book when language is used to further the idealogy such as the names and titles for Napoleon and the different names for the windmill. The messages and commandments change over time. What is Orwell saying about communication and thinking in a totalitarian regime? Then focus on one or two examples and discuss the reality of this being able to happen.

Orwell is trying to say that when people are in chaos and one person with good speaking skills control what the people think, the one person can obtain great power through communication, because the communication among the other people are often poor either because they aren’t well educated, or because they don’t have enough motive or time to stand up. Such incidents as the bird accepting Napoleon’s explanation about wings, which demonstrates the peasants accepting what their leaders say without really understanding it. This is how the expulsion of Strotski and killing of Kenon (?) (one of the members of the politburo) was justified and understood by others.

Michelle! Uncivilized country/nation is a hard place to live in. 4. Choose one of the Animals to discuss that is not a pig that you most relate to. Why does the animal react the way he/she does? What might the animal represent historically? What part of this society does the animal play? Why do you relate? How can this be seen in today’s life?
 * I agree with what you said. I also think that in a completely uneducated society, it is nearly impossible to really communicate with people using means of writing. For uneducated societies, ways like art, oral presentations, and media are the most effective. For Animal Farm, they used oral presentations and of course, the speaker would get a considerable amount of power because that person would be responsible for getting uneducated people to accept the main leader’s ideas. And for Animal Farm, that position would hold a considerable amount of power because they are all illiterate and just plain uneducated. (HA)
 * I also agree with you, it is impossible to communicate with uneducated people, so they used some propaganda techniques to show leader’s idea (like in the book Napoleon used Squealer as newspaper to spread rumors about Napoleon’s enemy and his good sides. And make uneducated people trust leader, even though they think it is wrong, they were forced by this techniques._Yunji Lee
 * windmill could be the heaven and Napoleon symbolizes the leader.