Dbq Animal Farm

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

Napoleon uses education and learning to help him obtain and maintain power. Napoleon seems to use the Proverb “A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth

A ruler has his little guards and his reason being. Napoleon was just there to address the situation when they took over the farm, and he was whom had the authority to overrule the animals. As the book dragged on with Napoleon changing his mind constantly, the animals grew to attention that he was their leader, end of story.

Firstly, Napoleon uses manipulation to generate a cult of personality in the Animal Farm. Napoleon directly shows how he manipulated the animals as he believed “...[weaker] animals on Animal Farm did more work and [would] receive less food than any animals in the country” (92).Napoleon shows how he only cares about himself as he uses the animals. He would make the animals do labour to support himself and to be powerful.The animals would agree to everything that he said because they believed that Napoleon wanted the best for them. Napoleon made the animals believe that they were in better conditions even though “starvation seemed to stare them in the face.” (50). He did a great job to hid the reality from the animals. His thoughts and

Napoleon being another intelligent pig on the farm believed he could become the leader and have all the power on the farm by scaring the animals. He does so by telling the animals they will work more or there will be punishment “Throughout the spring they worked a sixty-hour week, and 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 40). “The animals believe what the leadership tells them—that they are working for their own good now, not for Mr. Jones’s—they are eager to take on the extra labor”

He gave the pigs special privileges. They did not have to work as much and they got to drink alcohol. Napoleon feeds the pigs extra and the rest of the animals on the farm only have enough to survuve.They started acting just like humans and the other animals on the farm could not tell the pigs apart from the men. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which” (Orwell 141). Napoleon only caring about the pigs and himself shows how power corrupts.

Napoleon, the revolutionary leader, was a power hungry and abusive pig. When the animals wouldn’t listen he had to have them follow his rules and visions. He brainwashed the animals into believing whatever he said, threatened them and used popular animals to convey his desires. As dictatorship was the most prominent form of governing during the revolution, the leader used techniques to influence the animals’ opinion.

While Napoleon was gaining power over the animals he had to get rid of other politicians and opposing citizens. He did this by raising dogs that would strike fear into citizens and end up chasing Snowball out of the farm making Napoleon have total power. “Four young porkers…uttered shrill squeals of disapproval…. But…the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again.”(document B). This made it so the animals were too scared to oppose or overthrow Napoleon. He also made it so no one could challenge him politically. He did this by having his dogs kill masses of people so no one would dare have different opinions and speak out against him. “When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice, Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess”(document B). The mass murder made it so Napoleon had total control of the farm. The violence of Napoleon’s leadership caused the animals to fear to have their own opinions and forced them to conform to Napoleon’s

His main way of getting people to listen to him is by using his dogs to force people to do the required task or else they will get their heads bitten off along with the sheep saying ¨four legs good, two legs better¨ (Orwell, pg. 134) to help reinforce the idea that pigs are superior to the other animals. Another way Napoleon uses fear to gain the control over the animals at the farm is he threatens them with starvation. Both of these methods used by Napoleon were also used by Joseph Stalin to gain control over the masses. If society gives in to these methods then they are just giving more power and control to the higher power. Napoleon also threatens the animals with saying jones is going to come back and that is a reference back to when Stalin told his people that if they didn’t do what he wanted the old way of living was going to come back to them. With that much power and having all those people listen your commands can make you feel like you are unstoppable and greedy.

No matter how beneficial or hurtful a leader is, propaganda is crucial for them to gain and maintain their power. These leaders use pathos, name-calling, and bandwagon propaganda just as Napoleon does in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.

Napoleon threatens the animals with death if they are to disobey his rulings. “He ordered the hen’s rations to be stopped and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death” (76). By introducing the concept of death and punishment, he frightens the animals into listening to his decree. In addition, Napoleon also interrogates the animals on the farm. “Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?” (67). This rhetorical question is repeatedly asked as one of Napoleon’s tactics to make the animals remember the previous conditions that took place on Manor Farm. He often uses this intimidating question to make them believe that they could always return to how things are. *Moreover, Napoleon declares stringent orders among the animals. “Napoleon had demanded whether any animal had anything to confess” (84). He uses forceful language to language to demoralize the animals until they confess their wrongdoings. Napoleon intimidates the animals by threatening them with death, repeatedly asking frightening questions, and is very demanding, all in order to manipulate the animals on the

The third piece of evidence that shows how Napoleon controlled the animals

On page 92 the quote "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." I believe that this shows Napoleon's true intentions, to make one species of animal seem to be at higher power than another. After all of this time he was blaming things on Snowball and making it seem like he wanted the best for the farm, but really he just wanted the best for himself. for a leader of an area, he only wanted to make himself look good and didn't care how much work the animals had to do.

Napoleon also used many tools of propaganda to gain power. The sheep perhaps were his most important tools of propaganda throughout the novel. They were, for sure, a deciding factor in Napoleon's rise to power. Snowball, the other pig who shared the position of leadership with him did not agree with him on many counts. However, he was a good speaker and could easily gain the animals support

My final propaganda used to Napoleon and Stalin is fear propaganda. An example of fear propaganda being used in Animal Farm when he says ,but no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. When Napoleon says this it definitely adds a shock factor to the story. it definitely makes sense for this to be said in the story because it was the first chapter and it gives a feel for how Mr. Jones ruled the farm. Just like any farm all of the animals are killed and harvested for their meat to be sold for