Animal Farm Propaganda Essay

The Power of Propaganda In George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm, a band of mistreated animals overthrow their owners farm, leading to the story’s main conflict. Two of the smartest pigs, Napoleon and Snowball come to a dispute, which ends up with Snowball fleeing the farm. From that point on, the reader can clearly see the propaganda the pigs use on the animals, and how they use it for their benefit. Propaganda is used by the animals to persuade the minds others for the benefit of themselves, which leads to major plot development. Before talking about how propaganda was used in Animal Farm, we need to discuss what the word means. Propaganda means the spreading of ideas, information, or rumors for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person. So propaganda is a public rhetoric used for the sole purpose of changing people's minds about opinions, ideas, or people.
Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back!” Here we can see how Squealer uses his propaganda. At the start of the quote, he notes that the pigs are supposedly looking after the animals, and that their welfare rests in the pigs hands. This establishes that pigs are on the top of the hierarchy, and uses this to tell the animals who’s in charge. Squealer goes on to explain that it is only for the animal’s sake that the pigs received the milk and apples. However, the author denotes that this is not true by italicizing a word, indicating that the pigs are selfish. Lastly, he ends his statement with a threat, saying that if the pigs failed Jones would come back. This quote is one of the first examples of the pigs taking from the animals, and causes the animals to slowly transform into