Use Of Propaganda In George Orwell's Animal Farm

The book Animal Farm by George Orwell, is an allegory for the Russian Revolution. One allegory can be seen through Czar Nicholas II, who represents Mr.Jones. In Animal Farm the animals defeat and overthrow Mr.Jones, a bad farmer who mistreats his animals. The animals try to recover from the horrible reign of Mr.Jones, and the story is about how they live after overthrowing the farmer. Czar Nicholas II and Mr.Jones both struggled with their subjects and eventually were not fit to be a leader anymore so lost the right.

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is, first and foremost, a political satire warning against the pursuit of utopian desires through unjust and oppressive means. Operating under the pretense of an animal fable, Orwell disparages the use of political power to poach personal freedom. He effectively alerts his readers to the dangerous price that can accompany the so-called “pursuit of progress”. And he illuminates how governments acting under the guise of increasing independence often do just the opposite: increase oppression and sacrifice sovereignty. While the cautionary theme Orwell provides proves widely applicable, in reality his novel focuses on one tale of totalitarian abuse: Soviet Russia. The parallels between the society Orwell presents in his Animal Farm and the Soviet Union – from the Russian revolution to Stalin’s supremacy – are seemingly endless. Manor Farm represents Tsarist Russia, Animalism compares to Stalinism, and Animal Farm, with the pig Napoleon at its helm, clearly symbolizes Communist Russia and Joseph Stalin. But Orwell does more than simply align fiction with fact. He fundamentally attacks Soviet Russia at its core. And in so doing he reveals how the Communist Party simply replaced a bad system with a worse one, overthrowing an imperial autocracy for a totalitarian dictatorship. This essay will demonstrate that Orwell’s Animal Farm is

When the animals ran Mr. Jones off the farm it was the same thing as Czar Nicholas being overthrown. In history and in the book it shows that both the czar and Mr. Jones were unfit to care for anybody but

Napoleon uses propaganda through blaming Snowball for false crimes. “...[T]his traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year,”(Doc D, Chapter 6). Napoleon uses Snowball as a scapegoat to keep the animals on his side. When Napoleon's propaganda doesn’t always work, Napoleon turns to ideology.

“Do not let the power of fear control us, comrades. Together without fear, we’ve conquered so much! Let us not stop now!” Squealer said, trying to calm the animals. Throughout the book, Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals live in constant fear, Jones hurt and manipulated the animals while he was in power. Once he was banished the animals still felt a deep fear, Napoleon, who had banished Snowball, killed animals for plotting against him, and changing the seven commandments time and time again, brought the fear back to the animals.

The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell is about a farm led by Mr. Jones the farmer, who is a drunk and cruel tyrant. One day, the animals on his farm have enough of him, so they take over the farm. They set up a government of their own in which it starts out with all animals equal, but as time progresses it turns into a regime as oppressive and dictatorial as that of Mr. Jones. This new dictatorship is led by a pig named Napoleon who uses his speechwriter, Squealer, to create various forms of propaganda to sway the animals towards him. Through the impressive stylistic propaganda skills of Squealer, a fake reality is shaped by words and the animals fall victim to the power of words without understanding the deeper meanings behind them.

 Propaganda is one of the many ways people, or in this case animals use as a strategy to manipulate their ways of ideas into society. George Orwell use of it is presented frequently in

Napoleon uses propaganda and lies he spreads with Squealer, that all his actions are put forward to the benefit of ‘all’ the animals. Squealer speaks,” Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back!” He creates fear within the animals of Mr.Jones coming back again, and tells them, “Napoleon is always right.” He sees Snowball as a threat to his power, he spreads his words “Comrades, do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!” He tries to make false information and lies to the common animals. The external conflict between Napoleon and Snowball over power are shown, due to Napoleon’s greeds. Although the common animals of the farm found Snowball more likeable, the nine loyal dogs of Napoleon frightened the animals and strengthened the power of Napoleon allowing him to become the leader after Rebellion. Napoleon is unsatisfied of any ideas rooted from Snowball, brings out his specially trained dogs to go after Snowball. Snowball who does not have a physical force of his own like Napoleon’s, is chased out of the farm allowing Napoleon to become the one and only leader of “Animal Farm”. I feel empathetic to Napoleon some of the time, but to this extent I wouldn’t agree or connect with Napoleon. He uses and exploits other animals for his benefit, and untruly spreads propaganda to keep in power.

Towards the middle of the story, when the animals first began building the windmill, Napoleon needed the animals to work more in order to accomplish the regular farm tasks as well as the windmill construction. He used a statement that seemed to contradict itself, or a paradox, to get the animals to do extra work while still allowing them to feel as if they had a choice in the matter. The text stated, "...in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half"(Orwell 59). Napoleon's announcement contradicted itself because the work was not truly voluntary if the animals were punished if they did not do it. Snowball did not use paradoxes to persuade the animals; instead, he used card stacking. Early on in the story, Snowball proposed building a windmill to provide electricity for the farm. In his final speech to the animals before they were to vote on whether or not to build the windmill, Snowball listed all of the positive aspects of having a windmill and electricity, such as having machines do most of the animals' work for them and special features for their stalls. However, he did not mention any of the windmill's negative aspects, such as the

George Orwell’s allegorical novella, Animal Farm is a satirical retelling of the events leading up to the 1917 Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin. After the animals rebel against Mr. Jones and his employees, they set up a government constituted by “Animalism”, which in its raw state parallels the basic principles of socialism. In order to govern them, they create basic laws meant to unify them known as, “The Seven Commandments”, which they write on the outer wall of the barn. However, the pigs begin to disobey the commandments and change them to get away with it. None of the other animals notice due to their illiteracy, so Napoleon continuously exploits this fact to get what he wants. As a result, the farm that was meant to be utopic

One way he used propaganda was by Squealer. Squealer gave a speech to the animals which covered why the pigs needed the milk and apples to themselves. “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?... Our sole object is taking these things to preserve our health.” (Document C) When Squealer said this, the animals believed that the pigs needed the milk and apples, and that they were not being selfish. Squealer also said that Snowball was a traitor, and that he was not a true soldier in the Battle of the Cowshed. “Suppose you had decided to follow Snowball… who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal?... And as to the Battle of the Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball’s pain in it was much exaggerated.” (Document D) With this being said, the animals now believed that Snowball now was a disgrace to Animal Farm. Squealer helped Napoleon keep the power of Animal Farm by being his propaganda, and made the animals believe what Napoleon wanted them to

The characters in Orwell’s Animal Farm represent real people that played major roles in World War I. Farmer Jones is the owner of the farm before the animal uprising. He represents

In the short novel Animal Farm the book helps a reader get a concept of the Russian revolution and the characters are all based on real people. The owner of the farm Mr Jones is supposed to represent Czar Nicholas II and Nicholas the II was removed from power in hopes of avoiding a full out civil war just like how the animals chased him away from the farm, which represents Russia. Another character that is familiar is Old Major who is the animal version of Lenin ( leader of the Bolsheviks party) who had the philosophies of Karl Marx and Marxism instead of “Animalism”. Old Major just like Lenin died early in the revolution and wasn’t able to see the outcome of the revolution in full speed and his impact. Lenin led Russia to the U.S.S.R and the flag which was a

Animal Farm is a "fairy tale story" based on the Russian Revolution. The story can be related to almost any revolution because the main idea involves dictatorship. In this essay, Animal Farm will be compared to the events and people that were involved in the French Revolution. The animals in Mr. Jones farm were treated harshly, like the lower class citizens of France. The common element in both was that there was no middle class, the French and the animals on the farm were either very wealthy or living in extreme poverty. As for the French revolution, King Louis XVI can be compared to Mr. Jones the farmer because King Louis XVI was the ruler in France before the revolution and Mr. Jones owned and controlled the farm.

Russia was in a terrible state; there was poverty, very little money and poor living conditions. Tsar and his wife, however, lived in luxury. He had plenty of money; riches, food and he lived in a fine house with plenty of comforts. Jones is the parallel in 'Animal Farm'. Whilst times are hard on the farm Jones always has his warm house to return to.