If you read the book animal farm, help me?

Question

is propaganda a major theme in the book?

Answer 1

The major theme is the changing of rules for people in power. there are always exceptions and things slowly change.  

Answer 2

I have not read Animal Farm, but these links may help you.  Also, many questions have been asked here on Yahoo Answers about this novel, so if you do a search for it in the Y!A search window you will find probably hundreds of questions and answers, many of which might be of help.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/...

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitN...

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/1984/19...

Answer 3

It is a major theme in the book.  Many of the commandments were propaganda because of the way they changed them:

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Also the way Squealer would threaten them with "You don't want Farmer Jones to come back".  It is a major theme in the book, but not the largest.

BK

Answer 4

Propaganda can reach out to several things, it depends on if you are tying this into anything else.

I'd say the main theme was control.

The Pigs had control because they were the smartest animals on the farm. They could read and write while the other animals blindly followed them.  

Answer 5

Yes especially anti-communist propaganda, the animals revolt on the farm killing the farmer (a parable of the Leninist Bolsheviks killing the Czar) and establish communal living under the communist model.  In time their lives become a totalitarian regime and Orwell demonstrates how communism cannot work without an overzealous zealot at its helm with hordes of jackbooted thugs to insure "from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs."  Another sub-theme is that communism is inherently flawed because man (or talking animal) are innately greedy.

Answer 6

It is not THE major theme, but it is an important theme.  After the animals succeed in their revolution, a group of pigs ascend as their leaders.  The pigs, as an elite, start going on about human characteristics that make them evil (they=humans) and that animals shouldn't have.  They even draft up a code.  They hammer this ideology to the other animals.  Eventually, however, pigs start walking on two legs, smoking, drinking and so on: resembling humans.

Anyways, the book is a parody of the socialist revolution in Russia.  And yes, propaganda is an important underlying theme in the book's narrative structure.

Answer 7

Well, according to the pigs, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others

Answer 8

definantly. the whole book is about communism and propoganda is the central aspect of communistic society