Open AccessAn Analysis of Identification Theory in Political Fable—A Case Study of Animal Farm
Author(s) -
Xiaohu Dai
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of innovation and social science research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2591-6890
DOI - 10.53469/jissr.2021.08(07).22
Subject(s) - fable , rhetoric , identification (biology) , perspective (graphical) , politics , political rhetoric , rhetorical question , sociology , political science , social science , linguistics , literature , law , computer science , art , philosophy , artificial intelligence , biology , botany
Under the guidance of Burke’s identification theory, this paper analyzes the speech of the old Major in the first chapter of Animal Farm from a rhetorical perspective and finds that the old Major persuades his audience, i.e., the other animals, to gain the identification from two aspects: identification by content and identification by form, thus causing the successful uprising of the animals that follows in the storyline. This study explores the embodiment of rhetoric in political fables and analyzes the rationale embedded in the fable from a new perspective, that of rhetoric.