Satire is the art of making someone or something look ridiculous, raising laughter in order to embarrass, humble, or discredit its targets. Satire, as defined, can be seen throughout the novel, Animal Farm written by George Orwell. Animal Farm is the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. In this novel, Orwell successfully satirizes the spread of misinformation by mocking how leaders in power use words as well as propaganda to manipulate. Orwell effectively satirizes how individuals or groups in leadership positions can twist words or phrases to give misinformation and manipulate the population. The pigs and their manipulation of the original seven commandments is a primary example of this in Animal Farm. Eventually, the last commandment is changed to read, “All animals are …show more content…
In the stoey, Napoleon says, "All the habits of Man are evil." (Page 2). This excerpt from a Napolean speech is satirized and clearly symbolizes the spread of misinformation because the statement is false. Napoleon is essentially spreading the misinformation that all humans are enemies and should be viewed as the bad guys. Napoleon thinks that just because he had a few bad encounters with a couple of humans, all humans are evil and he wants everyone else to think so as well. “Russian propaganda art was often used to convince common people to support the revolution. Russian propaganda posters became one of the most common types of persuasion. For example, food shortages were a major problem in Russia and food scarcity was frequently used to create anger and resentment towards the tsar.”. The book “Animal Farm” was made during the Revolution and was created as a representation of such. The animals in animal farm used Old Major’s speech and death to make the animals join the revolution against the