Propagandas Campaigns In Animal Farm, By George Orwell

“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.” This quote from George Orwell demonstrates why propagandas themselves impact a lot of people. A propaganda is information used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. This is extensively demonstrated in our current society. Although some believe that propagandas are ineffective, this commonly isn't the case because there are variety of ways that propagandas have been shown to be potent in both history and current events.

The means of influencing an individual to the point that they will believe anything you say is the core of propagandas. Propagandas use emotion and psychological methods to achieve the goal of changing your mind.

This means that most people would rather agree with what others say than to research to see if what the person who is telling them the information is right. This form of propaganda takes advantage of ignorance among individuals. Similarly, the animals in the book, Animal Farm, all followed with what the leaders Napoleon and Snowball would say even though they spoke of ideas in which some weren’t necessarily good. Though because of the fact that the animals didn’t believe they would be able to come up with any better ideas, they would follow whatever guideline that the two had setup without question. The animals became in other words, ignorant towards the decisions Napoleon and Snowball had made. Thus the propaganda was effective in the sense of making the animals cooperating with the plan made by the two pigs and not to question their

An argument that often comes up is that propagandas are not influential when it is not strongly supported or it easy to tell rather or not the propaganda is telling the truth. A demonstration of this would be if a news reporter stated that climate change would bring about colder temperatures, but in actuality, you noticed that instead the days were actually getting hotter. The physical evidence, which in this case is the weather, countered what the reporter had said and since you have experienced the truth yourself, you wouldn’t believe what the news reporter had stated about climate change. These type of situations are why people believe that propagandas are ineffective. Although, this situation played out this way because of the person doing the propaganda. So the propaganda could have been effective if the news reporter had given more insight or had handled or explained the propaganda more thoroughly. So this means that propagandas are effective, but it just depends on the person doing them.

To sum it all up, propagandas are effective in influencing someone's mind. They have the ability to make people believe that everything that is said from them is correct. It also makes people follow others blindly. As well as, causing people to stay ignorant. So, although some believe that propagandas are ineffective, this commonly isn't the case because there are variety of ways that