Meanwhile, Squealer's entire job seems to be to the hide the fact that Jones is coming back—as a pig named Napoleon. He justifies the windmill; spreads rumors about Snowball; constantly changes the Seven Commandments; squashes the revolutionary song "Beasts of England"; and even manages to explain the confusion with Mr. Frederick and Mr.
Pilkington as Napoleon just being clever. And then there's his excuse about Boxer: after Benjamin tells the animals that Boxer has been placed in a knacker's horse slaughter's van, Squealer tells them that the vehicle only used to be a knacker's van. It now belongs to a doctor.
He even has a whole elaborate story about his experience at Boxer's deathbed: "It was the most affecting sight I have ever seen" 9. Napoleon is obviously Stalin, and Snowball is pretty obviously Trotsky, but Squealer… is a little less obvious. Some people think he's supposed to be Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's Prime Minister in the s, who issued a lot of the death warrants during the Great Purge and basically sucked up to Stalin wherever possible. Squealer is also a more general allegorical figure for propaganda.
Stalin's propaganda team used and abused language and images to keep the public calm and keep their control. Squealer's arguments even sound a little like those in Pravda , a daily paper that was the Soviet Party's official voice in the s. Either way, what is obvious is that Orwell meant Squealer to be hypocrisy embodied. He's so selfish and power-hungry that twist reality to suit his interests—or the interests of whoever he's trying to please.
We think this last image does a nice job of summing him up: "Squealer was so fat that he could with difficulty see out of his eyes" Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Previous Napoleon. Next Boxer. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title.
Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? Pravda means truth in Russian. How does squealer turn black into white? Orwell suggests that Squealer is persuasive through the description of his appearance and actions. The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white.
This description suggests that Squealer is capable of persuading anyone of anything, a skill Napoleon puts to good use. Who does Muriel represent in Animal Farm? The white goat.
Muriel can read fairly well and helps Clover decipher the alterations to the Seven Commandments. Muriel is not opinionated, but she represents a subtle, revelatory influence because of her willingness to help bring things to light as opposed to Benjamin. How does squealer try to rewrite history? This job falls largely to Squealer, who is able to spin anything so that the Pigs, and in particular Napoleon , is always in the right.
The pigs rewrite history by being able to stretch the truth so that the animals, unassuming of the ulterior motives, end up believing that which is said by Squealer and the pigs. Who is minimus in Animal Farm? A pig who writes propaganda poems and songs praising Napoleon and Animal Farm.
Minimus represents the takeover of art by propaganda in a totalitarian state that aims to control what its citizens think. How does squealer use propaganda? As a result, Squealer has used propaganda to manipulate the memories of the animals so they would believe that Napoleon is the rightful person to trust and Snowball was actually on the side of the enemy.
How does squealer help Napoleon? Napoleon then employs Squealer to spread propaganda and manipulate language to control the animals. Squealer bolsters support for Napoleon by continually portraying him as a selfless leader who works tirelessly to improve the standard of living on the farm.
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