How Does Squealer Use Persuasive Techniques In Animal Farm

Introduction

Many forms of injustice happens constantly all over the world, and some people are just not educated enough to realize it. In the Novel Animal Farm by George Orwell describes how a Dystopian society is ruled by two pigs named, Squealer and Napoleon. These two pigs are more educated that the rest of the animals. In this society the two pigs use persuasive techniques to manipulate the animals and tyrannise to get their way. As the book advances Napoleon and Squealer get more and more corrupt by their power and they take total control of the rest of the animals. However the farm wasn't always this way. The farm used to be ran by humans and the worst of them all was Farmer Jones. He never cared for the animals, …show more content…
Napoleon started to manipulate the animals so he can get what he wants from them. In order to do this Napoleon uses Squealer as his persuasive speaker because he's been so convincing in the past that it was said that Squealer could “turn black into white!” (page 3). Since Napoleon wanted and the pigs and apples for himself. He uses Squealer to convince the animals to give all of the milk and apples to the pigs. This is what Squealer said (on page 35) to the animals when he was trying to trick them into thinking he dislikes the apples and that he's he is only eating them for the safety of the farm. “ I dislike them myself our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and Apples (this had been proven by science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers.” Squealer uses quotes from an expert to tap into the animal's logic. This is to get the animals thinking that if scientists say milk and apples are good then it must be true. On page 36 Squealer continues to use persuasive techniques when he asks rhetorical questions to get them to think morally about the pigs. “It is for your sake” he says “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 comrades.” Squealer wanted to draw out emotion out of the animals to scare them into giving up the milk and apples. However, this is not the only thing he does to manipulate the animals. He tries to make the animals feel bad by saying that the pigs are eating apples that they don't like all for the succession of the farm. Squealer also said that the Farmer Jones would come back. This was to threatening the animals to giving up the apples and milk out of fear. This is the first incident that showed