Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Animal Farm: Style 1 key example

Style
Explanation and Analysis:

George Orwell’s writing style in Animal Farm is simple, straightforward, and intense. It’s a writing voice that supports the novel's many analogies and allegories. Orwell’s terse, almost journalistic writing contains very few adjectives, allowing the audience to make emotional judgments for themselves. His choice of clear, simple language reinforces the many political messages embedded in the story. Indeed, although the book does contain literal slogans and propaganda, some of the descriptive and figurative writing also sounds like spoken rhetoric or slogans. The book’s syntax, which is often repetitive, also mirrors the propaganda Squealer and the pigs disseminate within the farm to control the other animals. As the story progresses and the pigs gradually alter the Seven Commandments for their own benefit, slight variations in these repetitive structures reflect the changes in the way the pigs want the farm to run.