Propaganda Used In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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“Animal Farm”, forever a classic of propaganda literature, is a remarkable book. A telling of a revolution, and the cost of a revolution, fought by barnyard animals. Full of ups and downs, loyalty and treason, the book is clearly based on the Russian Revolution of 1917. The writer of “Animal Farm”, George Orwell, has beautifully crafted into it forms of propaganda in such a way of one wants to be in the action. Orwell has used many forms of propaganda to foretell the epic struggle between those four legged and those two legged. The three most important forms of propaganda Orwell used are Pathos,Logical Fallacies and Ad nauseum.

The first important point of propaganda used in Animal Farm is Pathos. Pathos is used in a lot of the speeches that Squealer uses to persuade the animals in doing things. When the pigs began to walk on their hind legs, the new commandment was that “All Animals Are
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In chapter VI, after the windmill was destroyed by a gale, the animals reacted as such, (“Comrades,” he(Napoleon) said quietly,”do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!”...”Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity,thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion)... This is a prime example of Logical Fallacies because after Snowball had been expelled from the Animal Farm, whenever something bad had happened, such as this case, Snowball was blamed even though it wasn’t his fault. This technique was used by the Nazis during WWII, in the case of when the Reichstag burned down, and was blamed on the Jews. This type of propaganda has been used by many other leaders such as Kim Jong Un towards the Americans. It is very effective because if one person/group, such as Snowball who has done something bad, then the other people will blame everything that