How Does George Orwell Use Propaganda In Animal Farm

Many readers of the book Animal Farm are frustrated by the stupidity of the animals when the government is using propaganda as a way to trick them. In reality, this is a problem in governments today and around the world when uneducated citizens are deceived though propaganda. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, propaganda enabled the farm government to bend the animals minds for different purposes.

In Animal Farm, Napoleon and the other pigs were able to convince the other animals of the farm that Snowball was their enemy, and he was not to be trusted. In general, the animals of the farm besides the pigs were pretty stupid. In the book, it came to a point where they would believe whatever they heard from pigs like Napoleon and Squealer. After Napoleon ran out Snowball, things started going downhill. Whenever there was a supposed problem on the farm, the pigs would find some way to blame Snowball for it. They would say he had whereabouts around the farm at nighttime when the animals were asleep, and while he was creeping around the farm he would steal something, or it came to a …show more content…
One of the ways they did this was with saying things like "Jones will come back". None of the animals on the farm ever liked Mr. Jones, so when they were convincing the animals that something was right and this way is the best way, they would use "surely, you don't want Jones to come back". The animal government also switched the Seven Commandments around, and then used propaganda to convince the animals that it was fine, with an element of fear. Since the pigs were the head of the farm and they made all the decisions, they "deserved" to have the extra milk and apples and sleep in beds. Without all those things, they would not be able to make the best decisions for the farm and the other animals, and the farm would fall apart. That would have the animals be in fear for their future, and lead to