Squealer (Animal Farm)

Squealer is a fictional pig character on Manor Farm in the book Animal Farm. Squealer is a very fat little piglet, with round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, coupled together with a shrill voice. While arguing a difficult point, he skips from side to side and whisks his tail around in a persuasive manner, allowing him to lie with ease. The pig is seen as the propagandist in the book and his ability to use language well makes his speeches believable by the other less intelligent animals. Squealer is also uses rhetorical language to manipulate animals.

Quotes: Squealer, the master propagandist in Animal Farm, justifies Napoleon's dictatorship and manipulates the animals through fear and false statistics. Key quotes include "Napoleon is always right", "Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?", and the deceptive, "It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples". Famous Quotes and Rhetoric "No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?" "Comrades! ... You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? ... Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health." (Regarding milk and apples) "Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure!" "Bravery is not enough. Loyalty and obedience are more important." "The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white." (Chapter 2)

Squealer is based on the Russia media of Stalin's time, and all the advertisement of Stalin.