Essay On Animal Farm Propaganda

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The Russian Revolution in 1917 became an inspiration to George Orwell in 1945, with that, a massacre also happened during that time and it all started by the same method. Accordingly, there are many resemblance and contrasting points of ignition found between the World War II and the book, Animal Farm if put together to compare, in addition of the Freedom Writers for support. The big idea of propaganda played a major role in igniting everything and also kept everything going both in the book and in reality. As the effectiveness of propaganda spread, it also seems like the value of morality had gone down. Regarding the novel, Animal Farm and the World War II focusing on the Nazis Germany here, both has the same goal and it is to have their disciples under control and not rebel. In contrast of the result of one showing drastic decrease in population and the other not so much; indeed, with other untold contradictions like a mournful end and another a bewildered end. The word “propaganda”, is a simple word with …show more content…

Starting off with the technique of “Scapegoat”, the meaning of it is when all of the cause of great trouble or suffering and disasters that transpired are attributed to an individual or group (studymode.com). Nevertheless, this technique is used frequently with quick solution to all problem that are occurring. In the beginning of Animal Farm, Old Major states that man is the reason why they are miserable. “There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word — Man.(Orwell, 13)” Here, man serves as the scapegoat for all the animals’ great sorrows and distresses, so blaming “Man” becomes the perfect scapegoat. Not just that, in the novel, Napoleon blames Snowball as a Scapegoat for having the windmill crushed to ground when it’s actually the natural disaster’s