Examples Of Stupidity In Animal Farm

In chapter 5 Squealer says “Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.” This is a significant and effective use of ethos because Squealer is telling them that Napoleon is somewhat sacrificing himself for the other animals. He is supposedly going to take on the most difficult and challenging job of them all because he does not want anyone else have to deal with the frustrations of being the leader. Squealer is giving Napoleon credibility by making his character seem courageous and affectionate, and that he is only acting in their best interests. He also says that Napoleon believes “all animals are equal.” This makes the animals think that Napoleon is humble and not arrogant. Pretty much every time the pigs talk to the lower class animals, they refer to them as comrades; and when they mention Napoleon, they call him Comrade Napoleon. This is also the pigs trying to make the animals think that they are on the same level as

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

Napoleon made excellent use of his second-in-command Squealer’s abilities at speaking eloquently and convincingly to make propaganda. Squealer would make the other animals think that they were better off

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.

Throughout the story, you see the way that the pig, Squealer, gives information to the “lowly” animals. He tells them what the leading pig, Napoleon, wants them to know, but he tells it in a way that it seems they are benefitting. Squealer had a way of persuading the other animals to listen to him, through his actions and manipulation. “The best known among them was a small, fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements and a shrill voice. 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 to white.”

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

Napoleon’s use of propaganda keeps the animals on his side. Squealer tells the animals that the pigs need milk and apples because they work more than the other animals. Squealer told the animals, “... So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and...apples...should be reserved for the pigs alone,”(Doc C, Chapter 3). Napoleon uses propaganda through Squealer telling the animals to do what he says.

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- A porker pig, is clever and with the ability to manipulate the fellow animals’ thought. He is shown to be Napoleon’s mouthpiece, delivering the messages and convincing the animals that everything that is happening was for their good to keep the humans away from the farm. He has been a help to Napoleon

Napoleon uses Squealer to spread false information in order to guide the public opinion. Napoleon shapes the perspective of Snowball to the public by having Squealer broadcast lies and propaganda. As in; Chapter 5 [When Napoleon and Snowball went back and forth at a Sunday meeting, after Snowballs accidental tragedy, Napoleon and Squealer convinces all the animals on the farm that Snowball was a source of evil and stole the idea of the Windmill from Napoleon.] The publicity spin, withholding of truth, and neglection of facts that are created by Napoleon directly targeted Snowball and blatantly contradicted the society's true colors. The animals were convinced Snowball, while in the midst of chaos, shot one of his own kin.

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

Napoleon and Squealer consistently emphasize ceremonies, traditions, and ranks to influence the animals to disregard their laborious lives and actually consider how their lives are meaningful and comfortable. The pigs want to hide their faults, and prevent the animals from solving the problem. This is the only way they can show the animals, that they really have something to give them and there is a benefit from working hard.

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,