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Examples Of Propaganda In 1984

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Propaganda has been around for years, it can be seen in newspapers, magazines, it can be written about in books, and used in commercials. In George Orwell's book, 1984, the government has power, and uses it to control the Outer Party. In 1984, the government uses propaganda to persuade, and control the people of Oceania, just like the propaganda used to persuade us. In the Natural Geographics magazine, the ad for Wonderful Pistachios, uses three types of propaganda to make you buy their product. The three types of propaganda; card stacking, assertion, and transfer, these types are also used in 1984, but in the novel, 1984, the government uses the propaganda to scare the people of Oceania, so they could have power. Today companies use propaganda to get people to buy what they are selling, or other people use propaganda to control our thoughts, get us to think about something that can, or can not be, important. …show more content…

In the ad that I chose, they are comparing pistachios to a bowl of chips, saying you can eat a bigger bowl of pistachios, and that is the same calorie count as eating a small bowl of chips, but no more information about anything else. They are favoring in pistachios, hoping that that will make you want to buy them. In 1984, “Swine! Swine! Swine!(pg.14)”,they call Goldstein this on Hate week. The people only know what the government has said about him, other than that, they don’t really actually know who he is. Goldstein gets for the war happening, and the people believe it. If they didn’t blame everything on him, then the people would be able to figure out exactly who has doing all everything. The government needed the people to believe that everything bad happening to them was because of Goldstein, they needed someone to

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