Animal Farm Character Analysis

Superior Essays
In real life, each one of the tyrants has their own minions. In Animal Farm, a political fiction story and cautionary tale written by George Orwell, the pigs were manipulated to be the rulers of Animal Farm. On the same time, the book Animal Farm is an allegory to the Russian Revolutionary of 1917. Animal Farm, or what was called Manor Farm, represents Russia. Mr. Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, appears as Czar Nicholas II because both were overthrown by their citizens. While Napoleon, a pig that rules Animal Farm after Old Major, is shown as Joseph Stalin, the second leader of the Soviet Union, because both made a successful communities but using the Great Terror, murdering all opponents of Stalin. Snowball, a clever pig who challenges Napoleon …show more content…
Napoleon is a tyrant and his minion is Squealer. All of Napoleon’s decisions were clarified by Squealer. Even when Napoleon’s selection would affect the animals negatively, Squealer could manipulate the animals why it was positive. Squealer gave no chance for the animals to think about Napoleon’s choices. Squealer appears plenteous of times when he gives an inaccurate explanations of Napoleon’s decisions. A specific example about Squealer’s false explanations is when Napoleon and the pigs took the milk and apples, and here the beginning of metamorphosis starts to …show more content…
Squealer knows that the animals in the farm are not educated, and they are unintelligent. Squealer turns the unpleasant facts and realities to positive lies. The way Squealer manipulate the animals was always persuasive, and that is what allowed the pigs morphing into humans. Squealer is a clever pig that could change any unacceptable situation to be a lie informing the animals that the action and decision that was done by the pigs is for the animals own benefit. Squealer is the most effective way to persuade the animals to complete Napoleon’s commands “He]Squealer[ 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.”(page 16) Squealer knew what is the right form to persuade the animals to not protest. Squealer could produce a solution to every impossible problem. Napoleon always leaves the explanations part to Squealer. Also, this can conclude that Squealer is a sycophant of Napoleon, because Squealer could turn all of Napoleon’s decisions to be against him. Squealer could persuade the animals to follow him instead of following Napoleon. Squealer must of done his explanations for a purpose. If Napoleon did not give

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    "The animals were not certain what the word meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively and the dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions." (58) This quote from the novella shows how Napoleon uses the dogs, the representation of the KGB, and the pig Squealer as propaganda in order for the farm animals to accept his decisions for the farm. "When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animals had anything to confess." (84)…

    • 728 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Particular objects and figures being represented in forms misconceptions inevitably contribute to specific parties exercising greater authority over others due to the reinforcement of inaccurate perceptions which can indirectly bestow more power upon those who are reinforcing these ideas. In Animal Farm, a pig named Squealer, who is also a persuasive orator, manipulates the animals into accepting their lies: “He [Napoleon] had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence” (Orwell 18). It can be noted throughout the story that Squealer uses certain individuals to blame liabilities on, specifically Snowball. Squealer intentionally characterizes Snowball as a poor influence, utilizing him as a scapegoat for any events in where there is a discrepancy such as the…

    • 378 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In this quote, Squealer not only says that the pigs need these apples and that milk, but also that it’s not their pleasure. Here, Squealer turns all the opinions of the animals the other way, making them think it’s not a privilege, but a miss fortune. That is why, again, I think that Squealer is very important in the role of power take over, and that without the pigs might not have had all these…

    • 678 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    over your welfare. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty?” (Orwell 23). Not only does Squealer use pathos, he also poses a rhetorical question. Squealer is a cunning and eloquent speaker who can sway the other animals in his desired direction by using mastery of language and rhetoric.…

    • 429 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Governments everywhere try to get the citizens on their side on issues, during elections, and in day to day life. These political figures use propaganda to get the people of their city, state, or country on their side. Animal Farm by George Orwell demonstrates and shows us just how much propaganda is used and needed in government. People are being affected by this form of persuasion to support political and potential leaders.…

    • 518 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    He is making them believe that they only have two choices him or Jones. To begin with Napoleon scapegoats Squealer to make sure that he has no competition of leadership. Napoleon also tries to make squelar look bad. For case in point, Napoleon tell the animals “‘Comrades, do you know...the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!’…

    • 652 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Manipulation is also used by Napoleon to alter the animals’ thinking and have him seen as the “good guy.” This can be seen when the author writes, “It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples,”(27). When Squealer says this, there is an emphasis on the word “your.”. This is done to convey that Squealer carefully chooses his words to think Napoleon’s actions are of the animals’ best interest. Squealer continues manipulate the animals when he asks,“surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back”(27)?…

    • 145 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    He often twists stories around to make Napoleon seem like a hero. If Napoleon ever does something that the other animals do not like, all it takes is Squealer to convince them that Napoleon is doing the right thing. The animals accept everything that Squealer tells them without trying to make their own mind up. The first example in the book of this is when the animals find out that the milk and apples are being consumed by the pigs, and Squealer tells his comrades, “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? . . . Milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig . . .…

    • 861 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the book we have a fake martyr. Napoleon gives his people the false sense that he is putting in the most work out of all the animals And squealer is helping convince them. He tells them that he is worried about the future of the animal farm and everything he does is for the farm. He pretends to be this selfless being. When in fact anything he does, he does for his personal benefits.…

    • 979 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Violence and Corruption of Leaders “They had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes” (Orwell 87) This is the scene for George Orwell’s Animal Farm, where pigs take over governmental rule after driving out the tyrannical Mr. Jones. Although the new government was designed from ideas of equality, corruption amongst the pigs leads to a reign of terror equal to or worse than that of Mr. Jones. Orwell’s intention in writing Animal Farm was to indirectly critique the ruling of the newly formed Soviet Union, therefore many characters in the novel are related to prominent leaders after the Russian…

    • 1003 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The animals that Napoleon kill; confess their crime to him even though they did not commit it. Lastly, Napoleon abuses his power by betraying one of his best friends Boxer. Boxer is a powerful work horse that does almost every task on the farm. Not only does Boxer do more work than any other animal, but he also is the one animal that always says, “If Comrade Napoleon says it than it must be right.” When Boxer says this it is displaying how…

    • 1080 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The story of Animal Farm is not just one of talking animals living on a farm. Rather, the tale chronicles the historical event of the Russian Revolution and the figures that took part in establishing the totalitarian regime in Russia, as well as the people that were affected by the ascendance of a corrupt leader. George Orwell, in Animal Farm, creates the villain character of Napoleon, a Berkshire pig, and the main antagonist in the novel, who rose to power through acts of exploitation, fear tactics, and manipulation to demonstrate the corruption of Joseph Stalin 's dictatorship. Throughout the story, corruption arose in the farm as Napoleon gained power and began to grant himself privileges.…

    • 1747 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Animal Farm is an allegory as it has parallels to the Soviet Union and the possibility of totalitarianism. The phrase in the book "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others" is a good satire on the facade of equality that communism in Russia at the time had. The pigs were the communist idealist, some of them being representatative of ones present in Soviet Russia, and they had a plan to overthrow the farmer, Mr. Jones, who is like the old tzars of Russia. The farm goes from a monarchy, to communist government, to a totalitarian government, resulting in Napoleon, the head pig, having complete control over everything in the farm. In the end, the communist idealist pigs turn into just what they had overthrown, and the rest of the animals could no longer tell them apart from the humans.…

    • 591 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout the allegorical, Animal Farm, the author’s use of particular characters to represent real life political figures is admirable. A debate could be started discussing the significance of a character and their contribution to the overall essence of the novel. But due to the level of engagement of Squealer, a character analysis of this character seems most suitable. Squealer, a pig, is the underdog, the messenger, and the public relations officer. This character, as portrayed by George Orwell, is seen repeatedly handling the relations between the animals without political authority and the “leader”, “the father of all animals”, Napoleon.…

    • 599 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Even as soon as Chapter III, it is said, “As soon as they [the puppies] were weaned, Napoleon took them away from their mother, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education”(51). As the reader figures out later on, Napoleon did not educate the dogs to read and write, but rather to be savage bodyguards for him and chase his competitor for power, Snowball, off the farm. As help Napoleon uses Squealer to help him get the point to all the animals that he never does anything wrong or unjust. Whenever Napoleon does something he knows is against the law, he is always trying to cover it up by changing the original Seven Commandments. On the night when the animals heard a crash outside the barn and saw the Squealer next to a broken ladder and a spilled bucket of…

    • 1168 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays