Drew Ortega
Mr Wilson
English 10
10 November, 2014
Simple Changes In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Squealer and Napoleon have been making subtle changes to the farm left and right, which sneak right under all of the animal’s noses. The analysed section occurs following Squealer repainting the commandment, “No Animal shall sleep in a bed,” by adding on “with sheets”, and thus causing slight confusion amongst the animals of the farm. This was quickly put to rest through Squealer’s multiple forms of his self-proclaimed superiority, either physically or verbally. Orwell’s placement of the passage gives Squealer the perfect touch for delivering a message to the animals. Along with creating superiority, and thus credibility, for Squealer and Napoleon, Orwell creates images of luxury and happiness to the “new” law, and
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He is able to accomplish this right off the bat in this scene by bringing the dogs along with him. This gives Squealer a much more aggressive appeal, making him seem irreplaceable and non negotiable, which is an example of pathos. Plus, the fact that the dogs are following Squealer can make the animals think that if other animals, in this case the dogs, are willing to follow him, then why shouldn't they? He is then able to establish verbal superiority and credibility though ethos by reciting things such as “we pigs” rather than me or I, and then again when Squealer says, “with all the brainwork we have to do” (67). This slyly tells all of the animals that they have to do much more thinking than the common animals, and that comfortability relates to the functionality of the brain. Although this never happens, Squealer could easily use this to the pigs advantage by making the most laborious animals have terrible sleeping conditions, while continually raising their own. This shows how powerful simple self-credit can lead to numerous new ways to convince the animals of the
When the milk and apples went missing and they found out the pigs had taken them, the animals were not happy, as they thought they were going to be divvied up among the animals equally. When this happened Squealer was, of course, there to explain as to why this was the case. He cried out, “‘Comrades!...Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health...It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back!...Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?’” (Orwell 52). Another time, when the animals began talking about Snowball being the front hand man at the Battle of the Cowshed, Squealer showed up to reposition their thinking. Squealer heard them talking and explained to them, saying, “‘As to the Battle of the Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball’s part in it was much exaggerated...Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?’” (Orwell 70). Squealer twisted the animals’ thinking around and made them reconsider all of Snowball’s actions during the battle. Squealer did not want them thinking Snowball was brave in the battle at all. Then, to get them to never mention it again, he used rhetorical questioning to
One of the main characters of Animal Farm is the heartless and merciless leader Napoleon. Napoleon is a leader that prefers to have things his way and not cooperate with others, in other words really obnoxious. For example “He declared himself against the windmill from the start. One day, however, he arrived unexpectedly to examine the plan. He walked heavily round the sled, looked closely at every detail of the plans and snuffed at them once or twice, then stood for a little while contemplating them out of the corner of his eye; then suddenly lifted his leg, urinated over the plans and walked out without uttering a word.”(Page 33, chapter5) Thus, this proves that Napoleon is an obnoxious pig because just because he was against Snowball’s windmill idea he urinated all over his work so he could get his way.
Throughout the novel, the pig Squealer serves as Napoleon's mouthpiece, who is described by the farm animals as being able to master the use of Propaganda to manipulate the somewhat naive animals. He is frequently used to justify changes to the farm made by the power-hungry pigs whose use of rules and order gives them power over the animals. The following quote is an example of one of his many deceitful statements:
Squealer uses propaganda such as rhetorical questions, lies and threats to convince the animals to believe the pigs. Unfortunately for the animals, they are easily led. If it were not for their blind devotion, trust and naivety, they could easily see how the pigs gradually gained power. The pigs also use the dogs as force to keep the animals ‘in line’, discouraging them from trying to rebel.
The first rhetorical device that Squealer uses to persuade the other animals is ethos. In the beginning of the novel, Squealer explains why the milk was not being distributed evenly, and why most of it was going to the pigs. Squealer supports this idea by emphasizing the leadership that the pigs play on Animal Farm. Squealer conveys the authority of the pigs by saying “The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples” (Orwell 31). This quote is an example of ethos, because it shows that the pigs are looking out for the other animals. This shows that the pigs have credible reason to have the milk and apples. It is not really true that the pigs need all of the milk to themselves, so Squealer is using his speaking skills to his advantage, so that he and all of the other pigs are able to enjoy all of the milk. This is not fair to the rest of the animals, but the animals trust the pigs to know how to run things on the farm, so they accept this as a viable reason for their greediness.
There is a substantial amount of conflicts that occur in this satirical story. Often these conflicts are between the pigs and the rest of the animals. Only a minute portion of the animals didn’t really have some sort of conflict with Snowball, Napoleon, Squealer, or the rest of the dominating pigs. Overall, Snowball was a better leader than Napoleon, yet the animals reacted differently to Napoleon than to Snowball.
One of the main leaders since the beginning of Orwell’s novel is Squealer -- a manipulative, deceitful, and undeniably persuasive pig. Given these traits, it comes as no surprise that his position in the triad of pigs (involving also Snowball and Napoleon) was the smooth talker and the voice to their final decisions. Frequently Squealer would read off the statistics of Animal Farms production in an effort to convince the animals that living conditions were actually better than they had been when Jones was in charge. When the animals found out that the pigs were drinking the milk from the cows, Squealer was quick to explain that the pigs needed to drink the milk to keep them healthy. His driving point on the topic was, “Surely you don’t want Jones to come back?” Squealer was able
Squealer, using excellent scare tactics and under Napoleon’s control, acquires the pigs the power to control the decisions made on the farm by giving the animals daunting thoughts of a farm gone array due to their flawed decision-making. He dispels the idea of Snowball’s loyalty to animalism by saying that if the animals would have followed Snowball, Jones would have returned and if the animals do not choose wisely whom to trust, the humans and Snowball will return. By cleverly inducing fear into the animals, the pigs are able to convince them to agree with and support anything they suggest. The pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm use specific laws, use unknown vocabulary and excruciating detail, implement scare tactics, and create and manipulate laws to successfully attain the other animal’s trust, acquire certain luxuries unavailable to most animals, and establish themselves as the dictators of a totalitarian-like society. Through using detailed, unknown vocabulary, specific laws, and scare tactics, the pigs acquire the ability to drink alcohol, sleep on beds, eat and drink the milk and apples, destroy Snowball’s credibility, and establish a trust between themselves and the other animals.
Pigs walking on two feet, horses and sheep talking. This is how George Orwell satirizes human nature in his classic novel Animal Farm. Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution of 1917. The title of the book is also the setting for the action in the novel. The animals in the story decide to have a revolution and take control of the farm from the humans. Soon the story shows us how certain groups move from the original ideals of the revolution to a situation where there is domination by one group and submission by all the others. The major idea in this story is the political corruption of what was once a pure political ideal. Orwell uses satire to ridicule human traits in his characters such as Napoleon and Squealer. There are several different characters in the novel utilizing animals as symbols of people in real life during the Russian Revolution. Napoleon is the leader of the pigs that ultimately come to dominate the farm. The characteristics that we associate with pigs , lazy, greedy, and pushy are meant to symbolize the characteristics that the leaders of the Russian Revolution exhibited. Napoleon is admired by all of the animals because he is their leader. All of the animals believe that their leader wants to fulfill all of their needs. They also are convinced that Napoleon’s decisions are made the best interest of the animals. Napoleon’s piglike qualities are shown throughout the story. He exhibited greediness when he sold the dying horse, Boxer to a slaughterhouse for money so that he and the other pigs could purchase whiskey. Orwell ridicules human nature through Napoleon in the sense that he is trying to show how the greedy and power hungry eventually end in corruption.
The animals in awe of the difficulty of telling from which was man or pig, they went back to the barn, gathered in the barn and were all about to go into their own stalls until the slightly blind Clover said, “Friends please wait.” The animals stopped and looked at Clover that was giving a saddened expression that made most of the animals walk over except for the hens and roosters walked to the chicken coop with their baby chicks following except for two chicks that walked over to Clover. Clover looked at all the animals gather and gave a serious stern look, “there was once a time when this barn brought joy to me and all of the others on this barn. It wasn’t when the humans were in charge or when Napoleon became our leader. Snowball on the other hand was the leader that actually didn’t become a dictator of this farm and wanted greatness for all and not just for the pigs and
In this novel, an intellectual increase in the exploitation of the animals started with little things such as the eating of the apples for the pigs' health. Then the animals couldn't make an informed decision, which led to their bad decision making. Next, Squealer would constantly tell the animals of the great things that they accomplished now that the pigs had gotten rid of Jones. After that, the pigs used the animals' lack of memory to their advantage by changing laws and telling the animals that the rules that were on the wall, had been there forever.
...ts are put to ease because they believe all the lies that Squealer feeds to them. Each time Squealer reads out detailed analyses of the farm, hungry, sick, and a cold as they are, “the animals believed every word of it.”(Orwell 115). The animals’ gullibility is taken advantage of by the pigs. Also, they behave similarly when Napoleon sends Boxer to the knackers. As the van is taking him away, the animals, blind to the words on the side of the van, “…chorused, ‘Good bye!’”(Orwell 123). If the animals were smarter and could read, the pigs wouldn’t have been able to get by so easily. Even after Benjamin reads out to them what the van says, Squealer convinces the animals that “the van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out.”(Orwell125).
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a political satire of a totalitarian society ruled by a mighty dictatorship, in all probability a fable for the events surrounding the Russian Revolution of 1917. The animals of “Manor Farm” overthrow their human master after a long history of mistreatment. Led by the pigs, the farm animals continue to do their work, only with more pride, knowing that they are working for themselves, as opposed to working for humans. Little by little, the pigs become dominant, gaining more power and advantage over the other animals, so much so that they become as corrupt and power-hungry as their predecessors, the humans.
Animal Farm is set on the Mannor Farm, during the chaotic time of an animal revolution.
Napoleon uses the smaller pig named Squealer as propaganda himself and as an extension of his own will that he wishes to impose upon the animals. Therefore, it can be inferred that Squealer is a symbol of the propaganda that leaders use to gain control over their people. There are many instances in the story in which Squealer either lies about the animal’s current conditions or glorifies Napoleon in some way. One example of this is when Squealer is trying to persuade the other animals into thinking that it was Napoleon who charged into battle during the battle of Cowshed and not Snowball. During this he says, “And do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of ‘Death to Humanity!’ and sank his teeth in Jones’s leg” (Orwell 81)? This not only implants false memories into the animals, but is also used to acclaim Napoleon as a hero. This reinforces the whole “Napoleon is always right” motto into their heads. It makes him out to be the good guy and makes it seem like he is someone to admire. Through Squealer, Napoleon is a able to use deception and influence to keep the peace on the