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Animal Farm Propaganda Essay

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The Dangers of Propaganda
Foundation Academy
3rd Period
Cody Cramer

Animal Farm written by George Orwell is a political allegory that evaluates and criticizes the events of the Russian Revolution. The novel shows the danger of propaganda through a story about a group of farm animals that overthrow their human owners and create their own society. The pigs, who take over the farm, use propaganda techniques to manipulate the other animals. The pigs' use of propaganda techniques such as fear, name-calling, and bandwagoning demonstrate the corruptive influence of power and the danger of propaganda.

Throughout the novel the pigs used fear as a tool to control the other animals, instilling in them a sense of danger and threat. …show more content…

The pigs used name-calling to label any animal who questioned their authority an enemy of the farm. An example of this is when Snowball was used as a scapegoat even after he was expelled from the farm. Orwell writes, “Do you know the enemy who has come in the middle of the night and overthrown our windmill? Snowball!” (Orwell, 43) By blaming Snowball, Napoleon is able to distract the animals from his own struggles and failures as a leader. This highlights the importance of questioning the motives of those in power and not accepting everything they say as truth. Napoleon used the animals' inability to question him to his advantage by portraying the Humans as the root of all the animals' problems. By blaming the humans he was able to create a sense of unity among the animals by allowing the animals to believe that without the humans they could live a better life.”With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more food for everyone to eat.”(Orwell, 28) This allowed Napoleon to suppress any dissenting voices as any opposition to him can be seen as opposition to the goodness of the farm. The quote highlights the irony that even after the animals overthrew the humans they still ended up being suppressed by their own …show more content…

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