Themes — Propaganda, Education & Class

This lesson covers three more themes that run through Animal Farm: propaganda and language, education and ignorance, and class and inequality. These themes are closely interconnected — propaganda works because of ignorance, and class divisions are maintained by both.

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Propaganda and Language

Orwell believed that language is the most powerful political tool. In Animal Farm, the pigs' control of language is their most effective weapon — more powerful even than the dogs.

How propaganda works in the novel