Adolf Hitler Propaganda Analysis

Literature can be an extremely powerful tool of persuasion. One man with one idea has the potential to influence hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people through writing. In fact, one particularly influential piece of literature convinced an entire population of people to ostracize, shun, and even murder their fellow citizens. Compelling texts such as Hitler’s Mein kampf allow me to believe that literature could be considered propaganda. These pieces of literature, when written to pacify a specific audience, can strongly appeal to humanity’s “passions”, as Plato suggests. I believe that authors use literature as a vehicle to demonstrate their personal beliefs and influence their audience to share those beliefs.

Hitler once said, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed”.
Authors, such as Hitler, use their talents in persuasive writing to convince their audience that they are the hero of the cause. Often, they use emotional language and appeal to disguise their true motives. Hitler capitalized on the German population’s desire for superiority by saying “It is not truth that matters, but victory”. This emotional display served as a facade to convince the German people that Hitler’s desires were the same as their own, making him a hero in their eyes. I believe that persuasive writing that is rooted in emotional appeal can be used as propaganda to convince an audience that the author is trustworthy.

To pull it all together, I strongly agree with Plato’s idea that literature is considered propaganda. Authors, including Hitler, use their writing talents to convince people to support their point of view. Hitler used his book Mein kampf to compel his readers into believing he was the savior that Germany needed.For these reasons, I believe that literature is a powerful tool of persuasion that can be misused to demonstrate