Animal Farm

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Animal Farm
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George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)

• Spent early years in India
• Was against British rule in India
• Formed political beliefs fighting in Spanish
  Civil War
• Viewed socialists, communists, and fascists as
  repressive and self-serving

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Animal Farm

• Published in England in 1945
• Orwells inspiration for AF came from watching a
  boy whip a horse
• Orwell tried to blend political and artistic into
  one novel

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Background

• Karl Marx (The Father of Communism) published
  the Communist Manifesto in 1848
• Marx spoke of a new social order based on
  distribution of wealth
• Communists in Russia led by Lenin (Bolsheviks)
• Lenin died in 1924 and Stalin came to power

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The Many Functions of Animal Farm

• Satire
• Allegory
• Fable

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Propaganda

• According to wickipedia.com Propaganda is
• the dissemination of information aimed at
  influencing the opinions or behaviors of large
  numbers of people Propaganda often presents
  facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to
  encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded
  messages in order to produce an emotional rather
  than rational response to the information
  presented. The desired result is a change of the
  cognitive narrative of the subject in the target
  audience to further a political agenda.

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Types of Propaganda

• Bandwagon
• Testimonial
• Plain folks
• Transfer
• Fear
• Logical Fallacies
• Glittering Generalities
• Name-Calling