From the extract, the dogs are portrayed very aggressively, ‘they dashed for snowball... to escape their napping jaws.’ The adjectives, ‘snapping’ an dashed’ make the dogs seem very aggressive and due to the negative context, it emphasises their brutality.
Also, from the extract we can see the negative effect the dogs have to the other animals who are watching, ‘too amazed and frightened to speak...’ here through the adjective, ‘frightened’ we can understand how the animals are scared of the dogs and from this, they now live in fear. In the extract, ‘silent and terrified, the animals crept back in the...’ here, the two powerful adjectives, ‘silent’ and ‘terrified’ are positioned at the beginning of the sentence to emphasise how the animals scared. Furthermore, the verb, ‘crept’ demonstrates their fear to the dogs.
In the extract, the dogs are portrayed as wild beasts, ‘closes his jaws on snowballs tail’ the noun jaw, which is in a negative context; makes the animals seem even more beastly. Additionally, this is emphasised by the way the dogs came ‘bounding back’ the verb ‘bounded; is very energetic and almost violent and is repeated twice in the extract to emphasis the beastly creatures,
In the extract, the theme of power is shown through the dogs, ‘snowball who only sprang from his place in time to escape.. .’ here it is evident that the dogs are superior over snowball as they use fear to expel snowball from the farm. Furthermore, fear is also used to gain power in the quote, ‘the animals crept back’ here through the verb, ‘crept’ we understand their fear and they follow napoleon back in to the barn without being prompted.
In the extract, we can see that Napoleon has power over the animals, ‘Napoleon with the dogs following him, now mounted on to the raised portion of the floor’ which symbolises his higher place than the other animals. Also, we can see that Napoleon now has the same amount of power as old major, ‘where major had stood’ here we compare Napoleon to Old Major who was a very powerful pig and was respected by the animals. Furthermore, the quote, ‘with the dogs following’ demonstrates how he has power because of the dogs.
Also, power is signified from the power that Napoleon has over the other animals, ‘they kept close to Napoleon’ it was noticed they wagged their tails with him... used to do with Mr Jones.’ From, ‘they kept close’ we understand that Napoleon has a significant power over the dogs and they stay by his side at his will. Additionally, we can see that Napoleon is like their master, ‘wagged their tail like Mr Jones’ here Napoleon is compared to Mr Jones who were the animals master and similarly to Napoleon he had a great amount of power. Additionally, the verb, ‘followed’ demonstrates their obedience to Napoleon.
Power us also show through Snowball, ‘there was no doubt as to which way the vote would go,’ here we understand that power has been gained honestly and righteously who resultantly would have had the animals vote, the phrase, ‘no doubt’ emphasises the power he has.
Another part of the novel that power is shown is on page 17, after the rebellion and the 7 commandments.
Power is shown in the extract by how the pigs are superior over the other animals, ‘the pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others.’ Here is evident that the pigs are not carrying out the laborious tasks but are in fact the leaders and only ‘supervise’. This indicates their superior power over the other animals. Furthermore, the verb ‘directed’ is an imperative and further emphasises the power of the pigs.
Power is also demonstrated in the extract by the pigs intelligence which makes them superior over the other animals. ‘With their superiors knowledge, it was natural for them to assume leader ship,’ here we understand that the pigs are more intelligent than the other animals and automatically gain power. The phrase, ‘superior knowledge’ depicts their intelligence the adjective ‘natural and verb, ‘assume’ further demonstrates how the pigs automatically gain power without question. The pigs superior intelligence is further illustrated by the quote, ‘but the pigs were so clever they could...’ here to word ‘so’ emphasises their intelligence.
The power that the pigs have is also demonstrated by how they do not have to work as hard as the other animals, ‘every animals down to the humblest’ worked at turning the hay... even the ducks and hens toiled...’ an comparison the pigs barely lifted a finger, ‘a pig walking behind calling gee up comrade or whoa back comrade’ here Orwell depicts the contrast between the roles of the pigs and the other animals. Furthermore, this is emphasised by, ‘it was the biggest harvest that the farm had ever seen’ which emphasises the hard work of the animals to make it such a success which very little was contributed from the pigs.
The power of the pigs is also demonstrated towards the end of the extract, ‘it was always the pigs that put forward the resolution,’ here we can sense the superior roles of putting ideas forward for the farm that no other animal did because, ‘they could never think of any resolutions of their own’ which further indicates the pigs intelligence and power over the other animals. From these two quotes, we can see that only the pigs put forward resolutions which have a big impact to the farm and this shows us their power on the farm compared to the other animals.
