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Essay / My essay - 1036
Animal Farm by George Orwell depicts a farm in which animals are deprived of their freedom and equality. Soon, they rebel against their cruel and heartless leader, Mr. Jones, and achieve victory by seizing the vast farm and ruling it single-handedly. However, the farm doesn't turn out the way the animals hoped. They are being treated the same or worse than in Jones' time since the cruel rulers, the pigs, led them astray with their propaganda techniques. Finally, the animals' quest for freedom and equality is in vain due to the pigs' harsh and cunning actions, such as their clever use of propaganda techniques. The farm's ruthless rulers, the pigs, use several propaganda techniques such as testimony, card stacking, and name-calling to help keep the innocent animals in line. Primarily, a useful propaganda technique used in this classic novel is testimony. The propaganda technique, called “testimonial,” is when a reputable person endorses or says something that could have a positive influence on someone or something else. In Animal Farm, testimony is used through the hardworking, innocent and gullible horse, Boxer. Orwell states, “The boxer was everyone’s admiration” (Orwell 29). Obviously, if he is everyone's role model and admiration, they will blindly trust him. However, is too much trust in someone so misguided so easily beneficial? Having a simple mindset, Boxer made two maxims his solution to every obstacle, problem or difficulty. These maxims cause great damage because like Boxer, admiration for every working animal on the farm, blindly trusts everything Napoleon or Squealer says, the other animals would follow. Orwell states: "A... middle of paper...... surprisingly, the pigs use insults to Snowball and Mr. Jones so that the farm can maintain its success by keeping the other unconscious animals in the dark, and so that no animal can think to question its decisions. Propaganda techniques play a major role in the plot of Animal Farm. If they weren't obvious throughout the book, the pigs would never have succeeded in fooling the animals, so there would be no conflict. The use of propaganda techniques shows how a few words or phrases can so easily deceive or change an audience's point of view. In conclusion, by including these propaganda techniques, George Orwell is trying to make the public understand that a few actions and a few sentences are enough to prevent the animals from stopping the fall of this farm. You should therefore not make decisions quickly as they could lead to serious consequences. consequences.