People desire domination; To satisfy their urge, manipulators use propaganda methods to maneuver and manage the minds of their audience. Propaganda is a method of communication that creates certain feelings and motivates specific actions (Stults). In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the farm animals plan to live in peaceful equality after overthrowing their human leaders, but the clever and cunning pigs take over the farm's defenseless leaders. Orwell wrote Animal Farm as an allegorical "fairy tale" ("Preface" 6) resembling the Russian Revolt of the 1900s. An important similarity between Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution lies in the propaganda techniques used by the leaders to gain their power. By gaining trust, hiding the truth, and threatening, pigs maintain power and authority over other animals. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm to parallel the events of the Russian Revolution. Orwell knew how much power words can have, and he shows how words can be used to greatly manipulate people or things in his allegory. Orwell learned from his personal experiences the extent of control that totalitarian propaganda exerts over people in democratic countries. Orwell explains in his essay “Why I Write” that he directly and indirectly relates his political views, anti-totalitarianism and pro-democratic socialism, through Animal Farm; he wrote the novel with disappointment and bitterness against the Russian government. World War I divided the Russian government and people. Riots broke out over lack of food and people shouted: “Down with the Tsar!” The imperial army sides with the revolutionaries and the tsar surrenders. Russia was now a republic (“Animal Farm” Literature 16). In 1917, Joseph Marx inspired socialism, and Joseph Lenin succumbed...... middle of paper ......g threats. Change is something pigs fear. Everything falls apart without trust. People should trust others, but only those who deserve this monumental responsibility. Clearly, the pigs at Animal Farm don't deserve the animals' trust. They abuse trust for their own benefit. If the animals had trusted in themselves instead of the tempting thoughts offered by Squealer, the farm might have remained free, and not captured by the selfish, greedy pigs. This book teaches its readers to think for themselves and trust themselves. The world offers attractive but selfish ideas that are not for the good of all. If the public fights vigorous and reckless concepts and decides to think for itself, it can be free and peaceful. Even with the tempting words of the world, one must not let someone or something else take power over oneself and one's own thoughts...