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Animal Farm
The Use of Fear in Animal Farm
The use of fear plays a significant part in the campaign of Napoleon to gain control of Animal Farm in George Orwell's "fairy story" of the same name. The satirical representation of Stalin uses, of course, other tactics to consolidate his power -- such as the propaganda spewing by Squealer, historical revisionism, and the exploitation of the sheep's ignorance. However, fear underlies each of these elements, and this paper will provide two examples to show how Napoleon uses fear to turn Animal Farm into a communist environment.
The most obvious example of the use of the fear tactic comes when Napoleon trains the pups of the farm (Jessie and Bluebell's litter, to be exact) to be his own personal guard dogs -- ferocious, vicious animals that repulse any threat to Napoleon's position of authority. The dogs that Napoleon raises come to represent a kind of brutal police force -- call them the NKVD...
The worker animals' first glimpse of them is after Snowball has just delivered his lecture concerning the erection of the windmill. Suddenly, Napoleon's attack dogs chase Snowball from the podium, across the farm, and through the hedge. Stunned by this unexpected course of events, the animals can muster no query. Some of the lesser politicized pigs mount a murmur, but "the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again" (Chapter 5, par. 16).
The other example of fear tactic is the constant threat of the return of Jones. The image of Jones as an object of oppression is conjured up by the mastermind propagandist Squealer. Squealer effects the specter of Jones to assuage the murmuring of the animals after it is discovered that the milk and apples are all going to the pigs' bellies. Squealer, speaking on behalf of the pigs, objects that the only reason the pigs consume the milk and…
Works Cited
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. 2003. Web. 5 Sept 2011.
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