The Importance of Squealer

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.

In the passage of Animal Farm, Squealer, constantly using various persuasive techniques such as repetition, plain folks, rhetorical questions, appeal to reason, appeal to emotion and appeal to authority, convincing the other animals that their ex “comrade” Snowball was a traitor and had deceived them since the beginning of the revolution. When using these Logical Fallacy’s, he successfully convinces the rest of the animals to believe and continue following the leadership of their fellow “comrade” Napoleon.

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

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.”

The first time we see Squealer is when some of the other animals question the consumption of milk and apples by the pigs. This point in the book is significant because it is the first time the pigs are seen to be giving themselves better quality food than the rest of the animals. Squealer is described in the book as a brilliant talker and persuasive. He is excitable and confuses the others with his skipping motions and whisking tail. These actions take the focus away from what he is actually saying. Squealer begins his explanation by using the word "comrades." The use of this word leads the animals to believe he is talking to them as an equal; this would make the animals more likely to believe what he is saying because the animals

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,

When the animal government starts over using their power and doing what they said the wouldn’t  Squealer, a very persuasive pig, uses ethos and pathos to manipulate the other animals and get them to believe everything he says. After the expulsion of  Snowball, Squealer has to try and convince the other animals.

In the novel written by Orwell propaganda is used to manipulate the idea and the feeling of the animals. One of the pigs in the novel that made most of the speeches and used the most propaganda was “Squealer.” It was so easy for the speech maker to convince the other animals what would happen or what they were going to change. Squealer used the fear of “Mr.Jones” coming back, blamed snowball for everything that went wrong, and convinced the animals that everything was okay and to keep working. Another thing is when the pigs changed all

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 uses this strategy to make the animals think about how they really feel about the situation. He has one question that he uses often. The first instance occurs, Squealer is dealing with the problem of the pigs having more apples than everyone else. “‘Do you know what would happen if the pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back!’...

In Animal Farm Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer all use Fear propaganda to convince the animals to do what they want or to believe what they want them to believe. One example of this is when Squealer is talking about the milk and apples. His reasons are that many of the pigs actually dislike milk and apples. He also says that milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig, and he says, “Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?”. He is saying jones will come for a reason. Squealer is trying to use fear propaganda to make the animals do what he says. When he says

In this situation, Boxer is finally questioning authority and Squealer must go to great lengths to explain that Snowball is most certainly a traitor. Squealer is clearly frustrated by Boxer’s persistence and fights hard for Napoleon's reasoning. Even though he seemed to side with Snowball in the beginning of the book, Napoleon is the new source of power on the farm and Squealer is clever enough to know to stay on the good side of the animal in charge. Now that he is on Napoleon's side, he wields some of this power by acting as an extension of Napoleon's words. His annoyance and ugly glance towards Boxer shows that he is slowly becoming corrupt by his newfound authority. It also proves that he has come to subconsciously elevate himself

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