George Orwell's Use Of Propaganda In Animal Farm

"All oppression creates a state of war" -Simone de Beauvar, French Philosopher. Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory for the Russian Revolution. Each animal was a key character in the Revolution such as Napoleon being Joseph Stalin, Mr. Jones being Tsar Nicholas and Boxer, being an ignorant. Mr.Jones was run off the farm because the animals were tired of the drunken man mistreating them. What the animals didn't know was that they went from one dictator to a whole group of them. The pigs. Ignorance contributes to political and social oppression and is proved by the inability to comprehend what the pigs are doing to the other animals. The animals cannot read or write as well, are perplexed easily, couldn't see the blemishes in the pig's leadership, or how the pigs changed things and didn't see or completely ignored how the pigs had acted.

Animal Farm is an allegory that was written by George Orwell that tells the story of the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union by using a great deal of symbolism. Three things that Orwell represented in his allegory were the leaders of the Russian Revolution/Soviet Union, the government, and even objects that were important to the Revolution.

In a society where the opportunities between classes are imbalanced, the higher class with more opportunities tends to use their advantages to discriminate against the lower class. In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell this is shown through the pigs’ manipulation of the other animals’ inability to receive and comprehend education. The pigs use their advanced knowledge to deploy the other animals’ ability to think and act for themselves, therefore making the animals serve the pigs. The pigs use this management by realizing the other animals’ inability to be literate, the handling of the animals’ memory, and the act of raising the young animals to act as the pigs want. Being illiterate in any society makes it extremely difficult to be able

Students in schools everywhere are constantly breaking school rules. Although they are receiving numerous consequences and warnings from teachers, these students still won’t follow the rules. Propaganda can help to reduce the number of students breaking rules. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs effectively use propaganda to win over all the other animals on the farm. Propaganda is biased information used by a person or group of people to promote a certain point of view.

The novella ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell, is an allegory, because while the pigs and dogs may have started out trying to make things better, they ended up making things worse then they had been before. Little hidden meanings, to show the negative aspect when taken too far. Some examples are: Manor Farm is allegorical of Russia, Mr Jones - the farmer, is Czar. Snowball, the pig is the intellect of the operation, the dogs in the barnyard are police squad. Boxer, the horse is your average Joe, or the working class. My take on this story's message, is in reference, to what I believe to be the most famous line in the entire story “ All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Basically stated, you have to be careful when you are trying to change things, otherwise you might become the thing you are trying to fight; communism in this setting, and that power manipulates for its own means.

Where there is good, there is evil. This implementation says that behind choice, there is a purpose, either good or bad, even if unintentional. Everything in life comes with choice, even down to words you exchange with another person. Words can dominate our world, whether this power will do good or ill. In George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, he demonstrates the worst of manipulation in a setting of war, presenting words to be as compelling as weapons. Not only is it an outstanding novel, but it warns us what words under propaganda can do, from “Glittering” to the “Plain Folks”, and even evoking fear. Words allow the intelligent pigs to play the animals like puppets, ultimately returning them to slavery.

In the story Animal Farm the author George Orwell tells the story of a farm filled with animals who have been neglected and mistreated by the farmers who run the farm so they decide to start a rebellion. The theme in animal farm is that the more power you give someone the more likely they are to misuse it.

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegorical novel that tells the story of both an uprising of animals on a poorly run farm, and the totalitarian story of the Russian Revolution. In the farm story, a revolt is led by the farm’s pigs against the farmer, but, eventually, the same revolutionary pigs, led by a pig named Napoleon, take autocratic rule over the farm and become as bad as the humans. Still, their dictatorship did not come easily, but with the strategical use of propaganda, or biased information spread to shape public opinion and behavior. A good example of this is when Napoleon uses simplification of complex ideas, propaganda that reduces a complicated idea to a message that does not address the whole issue, against the illiterate

Animal Farm by George Orwell serves as both a children’s story and an allegory of the Russian Revolution and Joseph Stalin’s rule of the Soviet Union. While it provides no solutions for the problems it depicts, Animal Farm nevertheless teachers the importance of maintaining political involvement and never following a cause without paying attention to the consequences.

George Orwell's Animal Farm is an acclaimed and honored literary text. His ability to unfold the corrupt and moving plotline is intoxicating. When one reads this piece, we are left questioning our own principals and their origins. Despite this book's surface level influence, it serves as a much larger Allegory for Communism and the Stalin Period. Orwell is able to successfully use Animal Farm as an allegory for Communism because he maneuvers a similar timeline, emotional impact, and political result. When one looks deeper into Animal Farm, they are able to match the corresponding components of the book's plot, to the events in Russia. This silent metaphor brilliantly shows us the impact of those events, both literally and emotionally. This technique, allows Orwell to broadcast his message in the strongest way possible, and for readers to truly experience the magnitude of said political events.

In Animal Farm, an allegoric novel by George Orwell, pigs on a farm take on the evil and manipulative traits of humans. The novel was created as a metaphor of the Russian Revolution. The two pigs fighting to be the leader of the farm represent Stalin and Trotsky. The pigs said that they wanted every animal to be equal, but instead, continued down a path of hard labor and abuse. In Animal Farm, the author, George Orwell, uses the intelligence of the leaders and the naivety of the followers to contribute to the theme of loss of freedom in order to show how manipulation leads to communism and inequality.

Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegory because he used animals to represent the people of the Soviet Union, the farm as the country, and everything they did and said represented the real life events that happened in the Soviet Union. Throughout the entire story he used hidden meanings. This was done by the words and actions of the animals, as well as, landmarks and the windmill. Before Major died he stated in his speech that “No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.” The animals decided to start a rebellion to be rid of Mr. Jones. This also happened in the Soviet Union. When the animals talked about Animalism they were referring to communism. To start the pigs were equal to all the other animals on the farm. After the rebellion the pigs took over saying they were smarter than all the others. The work of teaching and organizing the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognized as being the cleverest of the animals. Then the pigs became corrupt by all the power the other animals let them have. This power left the pigs to rule with tyranny. The Soviet Union leader was also corrupt and ruled with tyranny. All the habits of Man are evil. And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal. This was not true because all the animals except for the pigs worked hard but the

Animal farm is a story of animals rebelling against their harsh human owner, Mr. Jones. The revolution starts by a ig named old Major giving them the idea for the revolution, and the idea of an equal society through animalism. Old Major dies, but the animals finally do rebell, and turn their farm, known as Manor farm, into Animal farm. The farm is lead by the pigs, mainly Snowball and Napoleon, because the pigs are smarter. They begin to learn and read and write the six commandments to protect the animals and the equality. They promise to never become like the evil humans. As the book continues, Napoleon and Snowball butt heads and argue. This leads to Napoleon chasing snowball off the farm with his killer dogs and assuming all power. Continuously, the pigs take more and more power from the other animals. Napoleon kills anyone who opposes him with his dogs. One of Napoleon's most faithful workers, a horse named Boxer, got injured. Napoleon promised to send him to the hospital but instead sent him to the slaughterhouse to be turned into glue. The pigs start walking on two legs, wearing clothes, and become harsh leaders. By the end of the book, the animals cannot tell the difference between a pig and a human (Orwell)(Stephenson).

During the early time period in Russia, millions were killed, tortured, or punished. The lack of education is a major factor in the manipulation of the Russian people. However, it was not always like this. Czar Nicholas ll was the previous ruler, but was overthrown with the rise of the communist party. After a few years, Joseph Stalin rose to power. Using secret police, propaganda and manipulation he controled everyone. This event in history can thoroughly be described through George Orwell's writing, in the book Animal Farm. In this novel, a large community of animals are treated unfairly by their ruler. They decided to revolt and rule themselves. The pigs manipulated the animals and took control. Specifically, Napoleon who used power and fear to control the animals. By the end of the book, feelings on the farm had changed. When tracing my learning throughout this unit, I have come to realize that I used to believe that knowledge was strictly used for education purposes , but now I think that knowledge is able to protect you and help you from being manipulated.

The allegory that is presented in Animal Farm book reveals a unique situation, where greed, money, and power push the animals in leadership positions to betray the members below them. George Orwell, the author, creates a society that mirrors the Russian Revolution and claims