The book Animal Farm by George Orwell was written as an allegory for the Russian Revolution. Throughout the story different animals represent one of the major parts or people of the Revolution. For example, Napoleon represented Joseph Stalin, Squealer represented the propaganda being used, and Boxer represented the working class during that time. The animals revolution failed for many reasons throughout the book. Some of these reasons are that the power wasn’t equally spread out with all the animals, the animals were blind towards the propaganda being used, and the animals were too trusting towards one another.
First, all the power was in one animal. Napoleon, and Snowball part of the time, were always the ones to take charge and tell the animals what to do. There wasn’t equal power within all the animals on …show more content…
Almost immediately Squealer started using different types of propaganda against the animals without them knowing. They believed almost everything he said. “He [Napoleon] would only be too happy to let you make decisions for yourself but sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, Comrades, then where would we be?” (Orwell 55). Through this we can see that Sqealer was trying to get the animals to understand why Napoleon always made the decisions. He said that if the animals were to make their own decisions that they could chose the wrong thing and because of that g=make everyone else suffer. “That is the watchword for today. One false step and our enemies would be upon us. Surely, Comrades, you do not know Jones back? “ (Orwell 56). As you can see, the animals on the farm were blinded by what Squealer was telling them. They thought he was making a really good point and believed him. They didn’t know the tactic he was using so they believed him despite what might’ve been true. Therefore, Squealer was trying to use propaganda against them since they didn’t know what he was