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Animal Farm Persuasion

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The book Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory short story about the Russian Revolution of 1917. The animals on the Manor Farm overthrow the humans , and run the farm together, with the pigs as their leaders. Squealer is a pig who gives information to the animals, and plays a great part in the book, because he helps the pigs become what they fear. It is his job to give information to the animals, because he can almost always convince a crowd that he his right. Squealer is cunning, persuasive, and manipulating, in order for the animals to believe in him. Being cunning is one of Squealer’s best characteristics. An example of Squealer being cunning is,” At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, …show more content…

An example of Squealer using persuasion is,”No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? Suppose you had decided to follow Snowball, with his moonshine of windmills---Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal”, Squealer explains they are making the right decisions (18)? This shows that Squealer uses propaganda to persuade the animals. This also shows that Squealer persuades the animals’ with their fears. Furthermore, another example of Squealer being persuasive is,” He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive. The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white” Squealer’s appearance (6). This shows that the animals’ ideas of Squealer persuaded them to believe Squealer during his speeches. This also shows that Squealer’s appearance helped in persuading the animals. Using propaganda, his appearance, and the animals’ fears, Squealer is able to persuade the

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