Ms. Ayvazian
H 9th English, Per. 5
4 December 2016
The Irony that comes with Change
People always have a need to be in control and people get angry when they are not in control and other people are controlling them that 's why in history there are always full of dictators that want to have control. Animal Farm is an allegory novel about the real life events of the Russian Revolution where the author George Orwell uses animals to portray people of the Russian Revolution.Animal Farm starts out with Old Major a character in which he wanted the animals to get rid of man because man is the source of all the problems the animals had according to Old Major. Later on the animals take over the farm and then the pigs start taking control …show more content…
A character in Animal Farm named Squealer is a character that is resembling the propaganda that was happening during the Russian Revolution. In real the Propaganda isn’t a real life creature like the Propaganda of Animal Farm but a system of actions that can lead to people changing their behavior. According to Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia propaganda is “dissemination of ideas and information for the purpose of inducing or intensifying specific attitudes and actions frequently accompanied by distortions of fact and by appeals to passion and prejudice, the word is often used to refer to information that is false or intentionally misleading.”("Propaganda." Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (2016): 1p. 1. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. Web. 12 Nov. 2016.) There are different kinds of propaganda like Name calling,Card Stacking, etc. In the novel of Animal Farm Squealer uses the technique of Propaganda called fear to incite fears to the other animals on animal farm who don’t really understand what the pigs are doing to them. Squealer keeps on telling lies to the other animals. In the novel Squealer says “Discipline, comrades, iron discipline! That is the watchword for today. One false step, and our enemies would be upon us, Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back? (Orwell 70) Squealer is using fear to incite fear to the animals of animal farm by saying “do you want Jones back”. The animals of Animal Farm are afraid that the previous owner Mr.Jones would come back and Squealer uses this to incite fears so that the animal would believe to whatever he says Squealer is also making Napoleon (Stalin) seem like a hero and Snowball a villain even though.After Snowball left Animal Farm and Napoleon got control of Animal Farm Squealer keeps on saying lies to the animals that Snowball was always the villain and that Napoleon was always a hero just like the