Animal Farm is novel that represents the era of communism in the Soviet Union during the 1940's. The author, George Orwell, depicts an image of animals that serve as the lower class rebelling against humans that embody the aristocracy during this epoch. Although the revolution was successful, the animals experience how tyranny can thrive in democracy and camaraderie. Throughout the novel, Orwell effectively displays rhetorical fallacies by appealing to the animals' emotional, ethical, and logical reasoning. Orwell succeeds in incorporating pathos into Animal Farm by using overly sentimental appeals, scare tactics, and bandwagon appeals. The emotional appeals that Orwell uses coincide and correlate with one another to help build the argument. Orwell uses these appeals by having the pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, to manipulate the other animals through the ideals of Animalism. Animalism represents the guide in which the animals should live by; it's the basis for the animals' motto, "Four legs good, two legs bad" (Orwell 13).
Emotional fallacies are meant to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions. The overly sentimental appeal uses tender emotions to divert the readers' attention from sufficient evidence and facts. Appeals such as this one tend to be personal and relate to situations the audience can empathize with; according to Everything's an Argument its essential to "pull on the audience heartstrings"(insert info). This emotional appeal can also be biased by presenting one side of the argument to mislead the audience. Orwell chose the overly sentimental appeal because the fallacy helps introduce the idea of a rebellion on Manor Farm. First, Old Major relates to the animals as a community by stating that all animals in England have a "miserable, laborious, and short" (Orwell 2) life because they are subject to produce and provide food for the humans.
