How Orwell Present Squealer

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(with the pigs being more powerful) and how the pigs are held in such high regard due to their intelligence and leadership skills. This is a subtly used form of flattery to heighten their sense of important and gratitude towards the pigs. Moreover by ‘pleading’ with them Squealer brings across the illusion that he below them and he has to seek a way of trying to make them see his own perspective, instead of the deliberate manipulation it actually is.

Squealer uses the other animals own stupidity and lack of education against them. Gradually throughout the book the meaning of the commandments changes, this si extremely significant as it is what the fundamentals of Animalism relies upon. Through the use of subversion Squealer completely changes the meaning of the most important commandment ‘all animals are equal’ to ‘all animals are equal but some are more equal than others’, this statement being impossible as something cannot be more equal and is used to purposefully obfuscate the animals. This propaganda tactic makes it seem to the animals that Animalism still holds the same fundamental beliefs as the pigs have kept the first clause of the commandment the same but has added to it to create an opposite meaning, so the animals will continue to follow it because of its original intent.

George Orwell presents Squealer as an extremely important character as Squealer is the most obvious form of Napoleons deception, which represents Stalin’s own manipulation of the meaning and intent behind communism, the anger this caused being the main reason why Orwell wrote this book. Orwell shows an in depth knowledge on how ‘easily totalitarian propaganda can control the opinion of enlightened people in democratic countries’ from his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War, Squealer being the main means of this highlights his importance in the book.