Did Squealer Fail To Point Out In Animal Farm By George Orwell

“Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out” (Orwell 116). In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, after the animals had taken over Manor Farm, Napoleon took power with comrade Squealer as his wingman. They were determined to make what was now Animal Farm a better place. However, farm life really wasn’t any better now. Squealer always reminded them of the olden days and how they had been enslaved and now they were free, but really, they were not free with a ruler like Napoleon. The animals just always agreed and happily continued to work in their “free” state of living. Squealer knew exactly what he was doing and was very deceitful with every word that

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

Squealer knew many of the animals could not read, so he was constantly changing the commandments to justify wrongdoings. When the pigs began sleeping in the farmhouse, Squealer changed the commandments from “no animal shall sleep in a bed” to “no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.” Squealer made the animals rethink their understanding by saying, “‘You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep in...The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention’” (Orwell 80). In order to make it seem like the pigs were doing no wrong, Squealer changed the commandment so they would not be in trouble with the other animals. One night, Napoleon had drank way too much and a few nights later, the animals heard a loud crash and rushed out to see what had happened. They came to find Squealer sprawled out of the ground with a bucket of white paint. A few days later, Muriel, the goat, realized that one again the animals had wrongly remembered a commandment. She was reading them over to herself again when she saw it. She realized that, “They had thought the Fifth Commandment was ‘No animal shall drink alcohol,’ but there were two words they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: ‘No animal shall drink alcohol to excess” (Orwell 113). Squealer had changed The Commandments once more without most of