Essay On Animal Farm Propaganda
The book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell uses a lot of propaganda. Propaganda is information that is being used to promote or make aware of a cause or point of view. This paper will be comparing different types of propaganda in “Animal Farm” and modern day propaganda. Some of the types of propaganda being used is bandwagon, ad hominem, and appeal to fear.
The first type of propaganda that is being compared is bandwagon. Bandwagon propaganda is where a majority of people are doing it so it is considered to be right or good. After singing the song, “The Beasts of England”, George Orwell states, “The singing of the song threw the animals into the wildest excitement. Almost before Major had reached the end, they had begun singing it for themselves” (22-23). The animals didn’t even know what this song meant that they were singing. They were singing it because Major was singing it, so it was …show more content…
Ad hominem attacks the opponent physically for their looks instead of their ideas. George Orwell says,” We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot undo our work so easily” (73). When Napoleon calls Snowball a traitor he is not competing with Snowball with his idea, he is calling Snowball a traitor for going to another farm when he practically kicked him out by having his guard dogs chase him off Animal Farm. Ad hominem is still used in modern day propaganda too. For example, the “let’s catch him with his panzers down”(Alinee15) poster, see example C, isn’t attacking Hitler for his ideas which weren’t very good either but instead trying to embarrass him. On the poster is a picture of Hitler in his nazi star underwear surrounded by little military tanks at his feet. This poster would have been used in World War II to encourage manufacturer workers to encourage making weapons and other supplies. In both of this examples, they are not attacking the person for their ideas instead are trying to embarrass them or hurt their
The first type of propaganda that is being compared is bandwagon. Bandwagon propaganda is where a majority of people are doing it so it is considered to be right or good. After singing the song, “The Beasts of England”, George Orwell states, “The singing of the song threw the animals into the wildest excitement. Almost before Major had reached the end, they had begun singing it for themselves” (22-23). The animals didn’t even know what this song meant that they were singing. They were singing it because Major was singing it, so it was …show more content…
Ad hominem attacks the opponent physically for their looks instead of their ideas. George Orwell says,” We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot undo our work so easily” (73). When Napoleon calls Snowball a traitor he is not competing with Snowball with his idea, he is calling Snowball a traitor for going to another farm when he practically kicked him out by having his guard dogs chase him off Animal Farm. Ad hominem is still used in modern day propaganda too. For example, the “let’s catch him with his panzers down”(Alinee15) poster, see example C, isn’t attacking Hitler for his ideas which weren’t very good either but instead trying to embarrass him. On the poster is a picture of Hitler in his nazi star underwear surrounded by little military tanks at his feet. This poster would have been used in World War II to encourage manufacturer workers to encourage making weapons and other supplies. In both of this examples, they are not attacking the person for their ideas instead are trying to embarrass them or hurt their