Propaganda has been used in many different ways, in the real world and fictional world. The book Anthem by Ayn Rand is about a kid named Equality, who is different than the rest of his group centered community, and eventually finds his way to his own individualism. In the book there is many propaganda techniques that Equality’s government uses to keep everyone believing and part of the society. Anthem is not the only place where propaganda was used, in the real world propaganda was used during world war two to bring people together in a time of war. The propaganda used during world war two and in the book anthem are very similar to each other.

One example of propaganda use in anthem is fear. They use fear by publicly burning to death a man because he spoke the unspeakable word, I. Fear was also used during world war two as a propaganda techniques but in a little different way. Adolf Hitler used propaganda to make people fear the Jews which in turn led to the holocaust. Fear can be a powerful propaganda tool, it can make people obey orders by showing what will happen if they don’t and it can create a common enemy to bring together a country and create chaos.

Another example of propaganda use in anthem and world war two is bandwagon. In anthem it uses the bandwagon techniques of propaganda from a young age. They all grow up taught that they aren’t supposed to think for themselves and they are supposed to go along with the society and no be an individual. In world war two America used the bandwagon technique to bring people together, they put up posters and advertisements that showed how you should support your community because everyone else is. The bandwagon technique is a very useful technique because it can change the way people think and bring them all together.