OLD MAJOR'S SPEECH

 Select at least 20 phrases where the idea of language and power are present, or that represent an appropiate to appeal the audience. Explain 5 of them. Explain how the ideas help motivate the rest of the animals,  make reference to the films when necessary. Add a picture related.

1) I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom.

2) Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours?

3) Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

4) 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.

5) The soil of England is fertile, its climate is good, its is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously greater number of animal that now inhabit it.

6) No animal in Englad knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old.

7) No animal in England is free.

8) This single farm of ours would supper a donzer horses, twenty cows, hundereds of sheep-- and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining.

9) Why then do we continue in this miserable condition?

10) 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.

11) 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.

12) 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

13) Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.

14) Almost overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race!

15) Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own.

16) The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

17) That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!

18) Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle.

19) All men are enemies.

20) All animals are comrades.

Explanations:

16) "The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth."

In this phrase Old Major starts by giving an statement that the life of an animal is horrible, just misery and slavery, so they must do something.

9) "Why then do we continue in this miserable condition?"

In this sentence, we can see that Old Major tries to incentivate the animals to take action on the fight humans so they can start living in the way they deserve.

10) "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."

This sentence explains the animals that man is worthless, it just consumes and do nothing so its no fair that man rules them as the animals do all the work.

13)  "Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever."

This is a key sentence as Old Major tell the animals the answer to all of their problems, to remove the man.

17) "That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!"

This sentence concludes Old Major's ideas, it gives the animals the way to remove man, by rebellion.


By all these ideas, the Old Major changes the mind of the animals, now they can realize that they have being suffering and this must stop, its time to take action.