PROPAGANDA
In Animal Farm, this persuasive pig explains away every decision so the animals accept it.
Squealer
Napoleon uses these animals to chase Snowball off the farm.
The dogs.
Napoleon's private enforcers. After this, no one dares to argue with him.
Napoleon blames this exiled pig for the windmill's collapse.
Snowball
Napoleon takes these from their mothers and raises them in secret.
The puppies
The rules of Animalism are painted here, and they keep mysteriously changing.
The barn wall (the Seven Commandments)
Across Los Angeles, the Republic broadcasts its official news and war updates on these giant screens.
The JumboTrons: Citizens only hear the government's version of events.
The Republic plans to do this to Day in front of the public, as a warning.
Execute him
A public punishment shows everyone what happens to rebels.
The nation the Republic is at war with, used to keep citizens afraid and loyal.
The Colonies
Every ten-year-old in the Republic must take this exam.
The Trial
Squealer says Boxer died peacefully in a hospital. What really happened?
He was sold to the knacker
Both books: leaders report this kind of good news to make suffering look like success.
Fake progress: Squealer reads rising production figures while animals starve. The Republic promotes its war against the Colonies as heroic.
In Animal Farm, animals confess to crimes and are killed on the spot. What lesson does everyone learn?
Speaking out can get you killed
The killings scare the rest of the animals into silence.
The Republic calls him its most wanted criminal, though he steals to help the poor.
Day
June earns this perfect Trial score, so the military recruits her.
1500
The Republic tells families that children who fail the Trial are sent here.
Labor camps
Napoleon bans this revolutionary song, claiming the revolution is finished.
Beasts of England: A song about freedom is dangerous to a new ruler, so it's replaced with one that praises the farm and Napoleon.
When these animals protest having their eggs sold, Napoleon cuts off their food until nine of them die.
The hens
Starving protesters into giving up shows that any resistance will be crushed.
Squealer claims Snowball was secretly working for this human all along, even at the Battle of the Cowshed.
Mr. Jones, the pigs rewrite a hero's past to make him look like a traitor.
Day's youngest brother is taken by the Republic and used for this.
Plague experiments (Eden)
When the pigs move into the farmhouse, 'No animal shall sleep in a bed' gets these two words added.
"With sheets"
These animals drown out every debate by bleating a slogan, which later changes to '...two legs better.'
The sheep ("Four legs good, two legs bad.") Repeating slogans takes the place of thinking, so no one can argue.
When crowds gather to protest Day's sentence, Commander Jameson orders soldiers to do this.
Fire on the protesters
The Republic uses violence on its own citizens to stop a rebellion before it spreads.
Day is blamed for killing June's brother Metias, but this soldier actually did it.
Thomas (on Commander Jameson's orders). Blaming Day turns June against him and hides that the Republic killed Metias for discovering its secrets.
June learns that the only other person to earn a perfect Trial score is him. He was labeled a failure.
Day
Finish the final commandment: 'All animals are equal, but...'
"...some animals are more equal than others."