Gender Roles In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a satirical novel about the Soviet Union, with the characters and animals representing someone or something from the Soviet Union during World War two. For example Major represents Lenin, Squealer is Molotov, and Napoleon represents Stalin. Three of the main roles of the revolution Animal farm were Squealer, Boxer, and the sheep. Squealer represents the political propagandist. He went around the farm telling lies to all of the other animals. Boxer portrays the laborers and the low social class. These are the people who have to sell their labor to live. And finally, the sheep. The sheep illustrate the people who are swayed by the propaganda. The people who don’t think for themselves and just repeat what others in power say.

“The best known among them was a small fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. He 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.” I believe that Squealers role did the most harm. In the beginning of the book, there are rules that are set up for all of the animals to follow. Throughout the book, Napoleon used Squealer to manipulate the rest of the farm animals into

believing that they remembered the rules wrong, or that events that they remembered didn’t happen the way they thought. Squealer made sure that the animals believed everything Napoleon said was true. If it wasn’t for Squealer, the other animals probably wouldn’t have been controlled by Napoleon. Through Napoleon's instruction and Squealers teaching, the sheep, or the people who don’t think for themselves chanted and repeated whatever Squealer said. The commandments that were coined at the beginning of the animal revolution were completely wiped out until there was only one rule. “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” This was as far away from the original statutes as it could possibly be.
In conclusion, I think that Squealers role of the propagandist was the most harmful.

Because he was so good with words, and because most of the other animals weren’t all that smart, Squealer could tell them almost anything and they would believe it. He almost controlled there thoughts and what they knew to be true. If the animals questioned something, Squealer always had an excuse for why they were wrong and Napoleon was right. What of Boxers mottos was “Napoleon is always right.” This stood true for most of the animals, If Napoleon or Squealer told them that they were wrong, then they simply accepted it and moved

on.