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Examples Of Propaganda In Animal Farm

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Louden Smith
Mr. Delgado
English 10
1.23.23
Propaganda; the Swiss Army Knife of Literature
A great tool, weapon, and underappreciated are all words to describe Propaganda. This concept is significant because specific examples can easily be found in World Wars I and II when the military tried to recruit men to fight. More examples can be found in George Orwell’s Animal Farm when Squealer manipulates the animals to believe that there are certain exceptions to the commandments. Propaganda use increased during World Wars I and II to recruit men for the military, which led them to potentially lose their lives because they believed in the convincing words in front of them. Propaganda is an extremely underrated weapon of choice in quarrels because …show more content…

Nonetheless, a careful analysis proves that propaganda is a great weapon of choice because it can undermine one’s belief. In Animal Farm, George Orwell communicates that Snowball worked on plans for a windmill to help power the mill so the animals would gain more money for food, although Napoleon shut down the project and ran Snowball out of the farm because he didn’t agree with it (Orwell 49). The evidence clearly states that Napoleon undermined Snowball by shutting his project down and saying it was a bad idea. Napoleon deliberately undermined Snowball’s belief in a project that he was passionate about, so to get away, Snowball fled the farm. Looking at World Wars I and II, several people saw the extra taxing as terrible but were influenced to believe it was beneficial to the war because the extra taxes paid for the men’s weapons, food, and clothes. Political leaders deliberately undermined the US citizens' belief to help pay for the war efforts by exclaiming they only had to pay extra for a small amount of time for a bigger reward. As it has clearly been proven, there is little doubt that propaganda is not a strong weapon of choice when trying to disprove a

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