Propaganda In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Propaganda can be found throughout Animal Farm in various ways such as instating fear, instating false information or false leads, and glorifying goals/objects. Propaganda is what politicians and companies use to build support for them or a campaign. A type of propaganda they use is to create fear by presenting a disastrous situation that can be avoided with a certain behavior. Two other types of propaganda in the essay are glittering generalities, which is a generally accepted virtue is usually employed to stir up favorable emotions, and logical fallacies, which is drawing a conclusion from one or more established premises. These types of propaganda helped Napoleon suppress rebellion. Propaganda contributed to the fall of Animal Farm by taking

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