Animal Farm
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, power and control of the farm shifts from Mr. Jones to Snowball and from Snowball to Napoleon. Each, no matter how well their leadership, was corrupted by power in some way as compared to Russian leaders of the time. The most corrupt, Napoleon, uses several methods of gaining more power and luxury.Like Stalin, Napoleon uses a Propaganda Department to make himself look good. The one responsible for Napoleon's looking good and propaganda is Squealer. With a name like Squealer he better be damn good using his wits to Napoleon's and the pigs' advantage. In the seventh chapter, Squealer responds to Boxer's question
Squealer again is responsible for the wrongdoing. " Violence worked perfectly to drive away any opponent Napoleon might have had. Too much power brings the worse in us. He says, "That was our mistake, comrade. Napoleon's actions were not unnoticed though. "But suddenly the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again. Napoleon forced confessions and eliminated these probable traitors under the newly revised rule. One of many reasons Napoleon and Squealer get away with these false allegations is that the animals are too dumb to remember what happened. Without any opposition, Napoleon is free to do his own bidding. For we know now - it is all written down in secret documents that we have found - in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom. In the eighth chapter, the commandment that strictly forbids animals to kill one another was cunningly changed to "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause" after a series of executions of supposed traitors and probable Snowball followers. " This quote proves that propaganda was used to make Napoleon look good and his opponents look evil. Another way Napoleon uses methods to make him look good is simply changing the rules to favor himself.
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