Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is an allegorical story about the Soviet Union's early years. At the beginning of the story, Old Major inspires his fellow farm animals to revolt against their human master, Mr. Jones, owner of Manor Farm. Leaders of the animal revolt include two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball.
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever written—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh
Propaganda is a form of communication, where a group tries to influence a larger population. It has many different effects on the people it sways, and all of these consequences serve a purpose. These goals can revolve around power and status. In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the pigs use many different techniques of propaganda to help them achieve their ends. The animals affected by it experience both the positives and negatives of a revolution, as they try to achieve a perfect utopia. As the story progresses, Napoleon, an ambitious pig, uses propaganda to create a false sense of unity and prosperity among the farm. He and the other pigs also use propaganda to create a feeling of superiority between them and the rest of the animals. Napoleon’s cunning use of propaganda to reflect his power and maintain absolute dominance over Animal Farm shows that power and authority corrupt the mind and lead to the abuse of power.
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