Types of Propaganda Used in George Orwell¨s Novels

This message was also circulated around the farm after the Boxer incident. Boxer, a strong horse, had fallen ill and was taken to the “hospital” where he had died. In truth, Napoleon had actually arranged for Boxer to be sold to the glue factory. Squealer told all the animals that Napoleon had, out of the kindness of his heart, paid for all of Boxer’s expensive medicines without a thought. The other animals believed this and viewed Napoleon as a kind leader who cared for them all. This encouraged them to obey Napoleon without a slightest doubt. This ultimately led to Napoleon achieving a greater control of Animal Farm.

In her essay, “Propaganda: How Not to Be Bamboozled”, author Donna Woolfolk Cross explains the different types of propaganda and how it is used in the United States. The essay was first published in Speaking of Words: A Language Reader (1977). Cross defines propaganda as “simply a means of persuasion and so it can be put to work for good causes as well as bad” (247). In her article she discusses how propaganda works and explains how propaganda is used with thirteen different devices to manipulate people’s thoughts, opinions, and ideas. She uses this essay as an informative piece, giving advice on how not to be manipulated by propaganda.

Animal Farm, the allegorical novella by George Orwell, has an extremely important theme, propaganda, displayed representing the Russian Revolution. A big example of propaganda is when the pigs begin to twist the seven commandments. When the animals created the seven commandments, the sixth amendment was “No animal shall be killed by any other animal.” but when Napoleon kills other animals the amendment is slightly altered to “No animal shall be killed by any other animal without cause.” to persuade all the other animals that what Napoleon did was acceptable. “It ran: ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.’ Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals’ memory. But they saw now that the Commandment had not

George Orwell was a master of including real examples of historical propaganda to show how easily people can be manipulated. He used animals to symbolize how primitive most people’s thoughts processes are. Most of the examples of propaganda in Animal Farm were created to show how Stalin, a Russian leader in 1920’s, controlled large groups of people. Examples of propaganda such as, glittering generalities bandwagoning, and ethos, used by the animals in Animal Farm are still widely used today and can be found in health products, advertisements and political campaigns and debates. The three main types of propaganda are pathos, logos and ethos. Each of these forms affect a person in a different way, for example pathos occurs when information

There are many instances in Animal Farm where propaganda is being used. Propaganda is used in both for positive and negative sayings. In the novel, one type of propaganda used is name calling. When Jones the farm owner was still on the farm all the animals resisted him. The animals were upset because they felt like they were not being properly taken care of. When all the animals ran jones and his family off the farm, major declared “all men are enemies”

Throughout the story, you see the way that the pig, Squealer, gives information to the “lowly” animals. He tells them what the leading pig, Napoleon, wants them to know, but he tells it in a way that it seems they are benefitting. Squealer had a way of persuading the other animals to listen to him, through his actions and manipulation. “The best known among them was a small, fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, which was somehow very persuasive. The others said of Squealer that he could turn black to white.”

Manipulating people’s mind to believe your statement or opinion is the best option , it’s deceiving to whom it’s coming from. In animal farm there tend to be two people who are deceiving the rest of the animals. Napoleon who is a fierce looking pig who wants to be powerful and tends to over throw Snowball. During the rebellion with the humans , which is now known as “The Battle of the Cowshed” , Napoleon had deceived them by saying negative things about Snowball and taking advantage of his fellow followers who don't know what’s going on. Changing the commandments and doing things under his power to better himself and his intentions. “We will build another windmill. We will build six windmills if we feel like it. You do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty things that we have done. The enemy was in occupation of this very ground that we stand upon. And now --thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon --we have won every inch of it back again!” (Orwell 110) Overall , convincing them that without him they wouldn't have gone far. Especially with Snowball being a traitor. Making it seem as if he is doing it because he wants to , rather than saying he's only doing things that benefit him.

In the novel written by Orwell propaganda is used to manipulate the idea and the feeling of the animals. One of the pigs in the novel that made most of the speeches and used the most propaganda was “Squealer.” It was so easy for the speech maker to convince the other animals what would happen or what they were going to change. Squealer used the fear of “Mr.Jones” coming back, blamed snowball for everything that went wrong, and convinced the animals that everything was okay and to keep working. Another thing is when the pigs changed all

Propaganda often receives a bad name. People believe that influencing people as negative, however “propaganda as a mere tool is no more moral or immoral than a pump handle” (Laswell pg 21). It is not until the writers of the propaganda intentionally become vicious and spread lies that it becomes

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.

Propaganda in general is the idea of getting others to believe in one’s own beliefs. Propaganda is the “attempt to influence behavior…by affecting through the use of mass media of communications, the manner in which a mass audience perceives and ascribes meaning to the material world.”1 Propaganda was a major part of Germany’s way to brain wash people into following Hitler and his army. The theme of Hitler and Goebbels, (Paul Joseph Goebbels, was appointed Hitler’s Reichspropagandaleiter, the Nazis national director of propaganda), using propaganda, “was to merge the traditional German patriotism with Nazi ideological motifs”2, this was basically used from1919 to 1945.

the novel Animal Farm. It is shown through propaganda of fear, slogan and black - and - white fallacy. The pigs like Napoleon and Squealer, put fear in the other animals as a strategy to maintain their position as leaders on the farm. Additionally, slogans were used to promote a good cause but, eventually grew into something else due to corruption. Also the propaganda of  black - and - white fallacy was used to manipulate the animals to stay on the farm. Furthermore, these all  are contributing factors to the fall of animal farm due to corruption of power.

The novel 1984 is a dystopic novel, because the government uses propaganda and subliminal messages to control citizens. Oceania's government is constantly manipulating citizens to hate rebellion daily in the two minutes hate, " As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein (Orwell 14)", appears on the telescreens. The parties main goal for the two minutes hate is to make citizens hate rebellion, since Emmmanuel rebelled against the government, and by making "him the enemy of the people (Orwell 14)", the Party is also making people hate Emmanuel the party is also making people hate the idea of rebellion. The party also uses subliminal messages to control the citizens of oceania, with the creation of Newspeak which makes it "literally unthinkable (Orwell 327)" to go against the party using words, because they have eliminated all words that allow people to challenge the party. This is a way of controlling

"Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people... Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and makes them ripe for the victory of this idea." ( Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1926).

Propaganda is a tool for manipulating and changing the opinions people. The bases of propaganda have come forth form the modes of persuasion, Ethos, Pathos and Logos.