Squealer's Influence on the Outcome of Animal Farm by George Orwell

To illustrate, Squealer lies to the animals by telling them that the pigs must eat all of the apples and drink the milk. After the animals question the strange disappearance of the apples and milk, Squealer covers up the crime by lying. “Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health” (31). Now that Squealer and the other pigs have control over the animals, they feel that they can take advantage of the animals. Squealer deceives the animals in a way that only a corrupt leader would. He protects his and the other pigs’ reputations by shielding the truth from the animals. In addition, Squealer stops following the amendments. Soon after the pigs establish their authority on the farm, the narrator announces a shocking occurrence. “It was a pig walking on his hind legs. Yes, it was Squealer” (116). For the first time, many of the animals realize that the pigs are slowly morphing into humans, the perpetrators. Not only is Squealer a hypocritical leader, but he also deviates from the original rules on the farm. His abandonment of the law makes him an unfit and cruel

Napoleon’s disastrous reign only supports Orwell’s idea that revolutions always fail, tyrants are only replaced, and a new government is never established. Napoleon is a cruel ruler who, fearful of Snowball’s return, executes all the animals who “confess” to being in league with Snowball. Napoleon uses Squealer as a propaganda spreader to the other animals of the farm. Squealer tells the animals how wonderful life is on the farm, when in fact they

Throughout George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Squealer continuously persuades and manipulates the animals for the personal gain of the pigs. Squealers main role in Animal Farm is to convince the animals to agree with Napoleon. Squealer uses card stacking which uses bias facts and statistics to promote a cause. Also, he uses the transfer method which associates one thing with another thing. Lastly, Squealer uses flag waving which uses a special feeling to persuade people.

Soon after building the windmill, it falls and Napoleon blames Snowball for its destruction. Some of the animals sympathize with Snowball, saying that there was no way he could have pushed it over. Napoleon becomes angry, purging the farm, killing anyone who he accuses of allying with Snowball. After he did so, animals questioned his tactics only for Napoleon to ask the animals, “Surely comrades, you would not want Jones back? (Orwell, pg. 67 Chap. 6)” By saying this rhetorical question, the animals would not question what it was that Jones had done that was worse than Napoleon, and they would just get back to doing their work. Napoleon used Squealer the pig to help him get out of situations that he brought upon himself. When Napoleon would say something that he was not supposed to, Squealer would justify for

He goes on to imply that all animals should appreciate the sacrifice Napoleon has made in becoming their leader. He explains leadership is not a pleasure, rather it is a "Deep and heavy responsibility." The syntax Squealer uses is familiar to the animals that are used to wading in deep mud doing heavy duty work. Squealer knows the other animals are not very intelligent so these words would impress the others as they know they could not carry out such a task. Squealer can be seen here exploiting one of the animals' biggest flaws: their lack of intelligence and their inability to see through his shroud manipulation. He is ensuring that none of the other animals would want to be a leader. Squealer explains that Napoleon would be happy letting the other animals make their own decisions if he thought they would make the right ones following Snowball for example, would not be the right decision as far as the other pigs are concerned. The animals are lulled into a false sense of security that the pigs will look after them. This would further increase their trust in what Squealer is saying to them. However, one of the animals say Snowball was a brave pig. Squealer goes on to explain "Loyalty and obedience are more important." This would condition the

In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs are in control. Napoleon became the official leader after Snowball was chased out by the dogs. Squealer, Napoleon’s sidekick, now has social control over the farm animals. Squealer uses language to confuse and persuade the animals into thinking the commandments did not change, humans are allies and not enemies, and that some animals are more equal than others.

Squealer is a clever pig who is known to be persuasive , and defend Napoleon’s intentions. “The Battle of the Cowshed” happened so quickly. Some animals don't remember exactly what happened. Which is where Squealer comes in and successfully convinces them that Snowball has been a traitor all along. Then starts speaking in his behalf , declaring all Napoleon’s

To begin with, Squealer is a false propaganda machine. This heavily affects how Animal Farm has its downfall. For instance at his manipulative nature, it was stated by Squealer “But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?” (59), this shows how easily the Squealer can control the thoughts and beliefs of the animals. Although the animals already participate in more strenuous amount of labor,

The character of Squealer is intriguing because he is described as a manipulator and persuader, also Napoleon’s key “spokespig”. Orwell even narrates, “He could turn black into white.” Squealer is best correlated with the Pravda, the Russian newspaper of the 1930s. Since propaganda was a key to many publications, and there were no television or radio, the newspaper was the primary source of media information. Stalin’s control over the Pravda made it give out false information so people were convinced to keep following under Stalin’s dictatorship and the Pravda also worked for Stalin to support his image as a “good leader”. In Animal Farm, Squealer abuses language to justify Napoleon’s actions and policies to the proletariat (working class) by whatever means seem necessary.

Squealer lies to the animals about the current conditions of the farm. He “read out to them lists of figures proving that the production had increased by two hundred percent, three hundred percent, or five hundred percent” (92). Squealer gives the animals inaccurate information to manipulate their perceptions of Animal Farm to implant the idea that it is a great place under Napoleons reign. Secondly, Squealer distorts the truth by telling the animals about Napoleon’s initial idea of the windmill. Squealer explains to the animals that “Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill… it was he who had advocated it in the beginning” (57).***. Third, Squealer settles all the commotion by lying to the animals about Napoleon’s involvement with trade. He assures the animals that “engaging in trade and using money had never been passed, or even suggested…It was pure imagination.” (64). Squealer lies to the animals about this and claims it is due their imagination, all to manipulate the animals into thinking that* Napoleon would never be involved in such activities. Napoleon’s spokesman, Squealer, lies to the animals about the current conditions on the farm, Napoleon’s initial ideas, and the involvement trade to manipulate and deceive the animals of Animal

A cow, a sheep, a chicken, Muriel, Boxer, and Napoleon are on the bottom left corner. They represent Animal Farms’ society and ideals. The animal’s expressions are clueless, excluding Napoleon, who has a heroically outraged expression. Napoleon is shown as being very concerned, but he is actually behind the rest of the animals. This reflects his behavior in Animal Farm. However, Napoleon is placed above the other farm animals. This is how Napoleon wishes to be seen. This shows Napoleon as a caring leader of the animals. Snowball is shown as a large threat, standing on two feet and being unequal to the other animals because of his height. His trotters are reaching out, as if to steal from the animals. Squealer would use these lies and images as fear propaganda to convince the animals of Snowball being a

It is a common motif throughout the novel where Napoleon twists the truth, and even outright lies in order to keep his high position in the government, and to keep the “ignorant” animals from questioning him. This is what Squealer represents in Animal Farm - propaganda. Furthermore, this type of rhetoric language is shown to be used to control the society and

Squealer, the appointed speaker among the pigs, uses propaganda as a way to gain power. The animals describe Squealer as “a brilliant talker… he could turn black into white” (16). He was to make sure the animals believe that Napoleon is a righteous leader, even though in reality he is not. An example of how Squealer uses propaganda to abuse his power is when he made excuses for the animal’s reduced rations. “He had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were not in reality short of food...it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations...in comparison with the days of Jones, the improvement was enormous” (112-113). Even though the animal’s

In this example he tells the other animals that Snowball was teamed up with Jones to try to recapture the farm from the animals to take the rebelling out of there minds. In this particular example one of the animals says in Snowball's defense that he fought with courage in the battle of the Cowshed, and that everyone saw him with blood seeping out of him. Squealer replies to the animals by saying, "That was part of the arrangement! Jones' shot only grazed him. I could show you this in his own writing, if you were able to read it. The plot was for Snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight and leave the field for the enemy. And he very nearly succeeded-if it had not been for out heroic leader comrade Napoleon" (Orwell 80). Squealer recalls the battle of the Cowshed the way the pigs wanted it to be remembered, with as much detail of Napoleon saving the farm as possible. Although the animals don't actually recall it that way they believed it because Squealer has remembered it in much more detail than the animals did. This is also an excellent example of Squealer manipulating the other animals on the farm. He also takes the animals' lack of intelligence to his advantage whenever he can. When Snowball was in change Squealer was living in his shadow. But when Napoleon came to power Squealer also shared the spotlight. Squealer wasn't being used to his full potential under Snowball,

that what Napoleon does and says is right. He is able to talk to the