Animal Farm Propaganda Essay

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Animal Farm vs. American Propaganda
Many forms of propaganda are used in Animal Farm, such as fear, repetition, appeal to authority, bandwagon, and ad hominem. These examples of propaganda in Animal Farm can be constantly seen in everyday life. Fear, and Repetition are used in Animal Farm in many ways, smoking commercials and parts of Politician Donald trump's speech are used for modern day propaganda examples and comparison to Animal Farm.
Some propaganda from the book would be the sheep shouting “Four legs good, two legs bad“. They said this line constantly throughout the book, especially during Snowball's speeches and around the farm in general. Everyone knew this was something Napoleon said, therefore when it was repeated by the sheep, …show more content…

Napoleon used fear to keep the animals under his thumb. Napoleon and Snowball were having disagreement issues and eventually Napoleon saw Snowball as a threat, and decided to remove him. Napoleon chased Snowball off the farm using the dogs taken from Jessie and Bluebell (Orwell 41, 57-58). The dogs especially scared the animals because they were now under Napoleon’s control. Going back to the cigarette commercial, fear is used there too. With cigarettes controlling smokers as the commercial promotes smokers have a reason to live in fear. Napoleon and the Cigarettes from the commercial are the same in ways that they stand to rule over the smokers/animals. The smokers/animals are the characters living in fear, and the dogs/cigarettes are the cause of the fear.
To conclude Animal Farm and modern day propaganda are similar in many ways. Fear and Repetition are seen every day in politics and commercials whether Americans realize this or not. These forms of propaganda were also seen in Russia during the 1920’s, which Animal Farm was based on. Propaganda may take many forms over the course of time and location, but they will always share the same similarities and connections.
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