Read the passage from Animal Farm. Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did
not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say. The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious. So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone. By the late summer the news of what had happened on Animal Farm had spread across half the county. Every day Snowball and Napoleon sent out flights of pigeons whose instructions were to mingle with the animals on neighbouring farms, tell them the story of the Rebellion, and teach them the tune of "Beasts of England." Which detail best supports the idea that oppressive leaders use propaganda to achieve their goals? A “The milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone.”
B “Snowball and Napoleon sent out flights of pigeons . . . to mingle with the animals on neighbouring farms . . . and teach them the tune of ‘Beasts of England.’”
C “Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back.”
D “By the late summer the news of what had happened on Animal Farm had spread across half the county.”
In this passage from "Animal Farm", by George Orwell, the detail that bests supports the idea that oppressive leaders use propaganda to achieve their goals is option <em>B “Snowball and Napoleon sent out flights of pigeons . . . to mingle with the animals on neighbouring farms . . . and teach them the tune of ‘Beasts of England.’”</em>
Propaganda is the spreading of rumors and true, false or incomplete information to influence public opinion. In this passage we learn that the enemy is Jones. Snowball, Napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. They are the obvious leaders, because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and drink milk. Propaganda together with the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking. So they send out flights of pidgeons to mingle with the animals on neighboring farms to learn the tune of "Beasts of England", a way to use propaganda to achieve their goals.
<span>Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain?—O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! (Hamlet, act IV, scene IV)</span>
