Research Paper On Animal Farm

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I believe the pigs were to blame for the dystopian characteristics on Animal Farm, because the pigs persuaded the animals to believe them using fear and made up statistics, because they used the weaker animals to distract the other animals, and because they used the trust the animals had in them to take advantage of them.
Squealer, the propaganda expert in the novel Animal Farm, would do anything to get the other animals to believe that the farm was fine and dandy, Napoleon was always right, and there was simply nothing to worry about. He would make up statistics, use the fear of Mr. Jones or Snowball coming back, or even get the sheep to start bleating, “Four legs good, two legs bad!” until the end of time. The animals had no other way to

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