How Does Squealer Contribute To The Unfairness Of Animal Farm

#16 Lopez, Galilea Honors English II Period 3 9/21/15 Squealer Manipulative, persuasive, and cunning are all words that can be used to describe Squealer. In the book, Animal Farm he’s described as a plump pig with a shrill voice, nimble movements, and a brilliant talker. Squealer has a way with words. He’s very skilled at talking and getting people to see things his way. He can change people’s perspective on things.

In the novel Squealer uses fear, false statistics and manipulative words to control the working farm animals and to justify Napoleon’s actions. Squealer is just one of the intelligent pigs on the farm, however he is also artful and sneaky as well, he uses his cunning to deceive the other animals, this smooth-talking pig, misuses language to justify all Napoleon’s exploits and system of

The pigs use language that distorts the truth in order to manipulate and take advantage of the other animals. They start by exaggerating a claim in order to get the other animals into thinking Snowball is an enemy of Animal Farm. Squealer states that Snowball is “no better than a criminal” and was on Jones side “from the very start”(55,79). Since society shuns criminals due to their unpopularity, Squealer chooses that word. As a result of lying to the animals of Animal Farm, a scapegoat to blame all troubles on develops.

In the story, Squealer shows he is the propagandist in many different situations. His ability to use language, gaslight, and persuade others is very effective. This ability affects specific animals and the events that occur. A specific example is when Squealer sneakily attempted to gaslight the animals into believing something that they truly did not see.

Squealer is the main disseminator of Napoleon’s opinion, who becomes more and more isolated as the story progresses. Squealer tends to use logos in his speeches made throughout the book, but sometimes changes parts of his strategies. Earlier on, he uses vocabulary and concepts beyond most animals to bewilder them; however, later he starts to deploy tactics of carefully choosing words and rhetorical questions that the animals can understand; they then can construe what Squealer is trying to convey in his convincing talks. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, as time goes on, Squealer develops new tactics to convince the animals the justification of the natural leadership of the pigs, and that all animals remain equal through logos.

All in all, Squealer uses Napoleon’s prestige and role to persuade the animals of Snowball’s

(Orwell 53). The information that Squealer imparts to the animals solidifies Snowball as an enemy and strengthens their loyalty to Napoleon, rendering his propaganda campaign strong. Conversely, after Boxer’s death, Squealer relays his story to glorify complete devotion to Napoleon to the point of death. Squealer lies about Boxer’s last words, “At the end, almost too weak to speak, he

Unlike the other animals on the farm, Squealer was treated with more importance. “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in spite of selfishness and privilege?”(George Orwell, 35). Squealer and other pigs of conformity have the consequence of being selfish in which their affected positively by caring for themselves, however, affected negatively because their needs are impacting other lives badly. “Milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig”(George Orwell, 36). Animals other than pigs on the farm are treated unjustly due to most of the food supply being distributed to pigs.

Propaganda plays a major role in Animal Farm. In George Orwell’s novel, Squealer is the propaganda spokesperson that is an assistant to Napoleon to help him gain approval and trust among the animals. Orwell states that, "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." (Orwell 9)

By threatening the animals with the return of Mr. Jones, Squealer instills a deep sense of dread, preventing them from challenging Napoleon's authority. Moreover, the leaders of Animal Farm do not hesitate to resort to violence to reinforce fear. Any animal daring enough to challenge Napoleon's power is swiftly and ruthlessly eliminated, sending a clear message to the rest of the community.

As the Russian Revolution commenced in the early 1900’s, in which millions of people rebelled, several leaders sought power, with Joseph Stalin taking firm command. Similarly, Animal Farm, a novella written by George Orwell, allegorically represents the downfall of Marx’s manifesto of communism. On Animal Farm, the pigs distinguish themselves by immediately taking control and eventually changing the Commandments of Animalism to benefit only the pigs. Napoleon (Stalin) drives out his rival, a pig named Snowball, leaving him the opportunity to become an egoistic dictator. Manipulating a corrupt society, Squealer, Napoleon’s propagandist, uses rhetoric to control the animals’ rights and thoughts with clever words, in which Boxer's lack of intelligence leads to constant laborious work and later, his death.

In addition, Squealer often threatens the animals that Mr. Jones will return if they did not follow as instructed by Napoleon to manipulate the farm animals. For instance, pigs decided that the milk and windfall as well as the main crops of apples should be reserved for the pigs alone. Ostensibly, pigs need to be in healthy state as they claimed to be the Einstein of the welfare of the farm. Here also, Squealer threatens the animals that Jones would return if they oppose the idea. Therefore, the animals agreed with

He manages to convince the animals that it only makes sense to provide for the pigs first and foremost, as they are the ones managing the workers. He lays out the facts in such a way that disagreeing would make any animal feel illogical, thus perpetuating his agenda. Ultimately, Squealer’s employment of rhetorical questioning, repetition and logos shrouds the corruption of Napoleon's regime and results in successful mass deception. Through the shrewdness of the farm animals, Orwell implies that we humans are no better than beasts when it comes to exploiting one another with the power of words, “As we stared through the window it was no question now.

Squealer who, throughout the novella, uses his persuasive words of wisdom against the animals making them believe the lies of Napoleon in order to gain power for him. He uses strategically placed words of choice that many of the uneducated animals were likely to believe, many like ”tactics” and “This has been proved by science.” He, cleverly uses the threat of Jones coming back as a common fear among the animals and uses it as a form of catalyst to make the animals work harder for

He makes them believe everything he and the pigs are doing is for the greater good of the whole farm despite the fact that it is not. Squealer controls them in many ways but the strongest or most apparent are telling the other animals Mr. Jones their neglective abusive owner will come back, lying about Boxer the horse’s death, and finally changing the unalterable commandments into one that reads “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. One of the very first and most used techniques Squealer uses is instilling fear in the animals. He does this by threatening Jones’s return.