Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Where can I find a specific example of the propaganda technique of "Vague, undefined terms" in the book Animal Farm?It has to use...

"Vague or Undefined Terms" (or Glittering Generalities as
I call it when I teach propaganda) is defined as challenging an opinion by using words
that are so vague or so poorly defined as to be almost
meaningless.


In Animal Farm, there could be several
examples of this. One would be their motto,"All animals are Equal". Equality is a hard
to define word. What could be equality for one society might be seen as favoritism by
another.


Another example might be another motto on the farm
of "Four legs good, two legs bad" The words good and bad are so vague that they really
mean nothing. What is good? According to whom? What is
bad?


And another example might be Minimus' song he wrote
for Napoleon insinuating that Napoleon was the reason for everything positive on the
farm.

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