How Does Squealer Show Self Preservation

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Cate Bohacek
August 2, 2014
Honors Lit

Animal Farm, by George Orwell has many characters that portray someone who is concerned with self-preservation. From all of the characters I feel Squealer is most concerned with self-preservation because he will do and say anything to protect himself. He is constantly promoting Napoleon, and wanting all of the other animals to support him as well. Squealer will trick the other animals to make it look like the things Napoleon and himself do is benefitting all of the other animals. Squealer is very concerned with his own security. He latches on to Napoleon because he knows if he supports everything he does he will benefit from it. When Squealer promotes Napoleon, he doesn’t do it because he thinks that Napoleon is always right, he does it because he knows if he supports Napoleon he will get protected from it. He will do and say anything just so he is safe. If the other animals ever feel that Napoleon did or say something wrong, Squealer is there to change their minds. “Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals’ minds at rest. He assured them that the resolution against engaging in trade and using money had never been passed, or even suggested. It was pure imagination, probably traceable in the beginning to lies circulated by Snowball.” (Orwell 64) …show more content…

The main characters represent someone from Russia when it was communist. The pigs are a symbol for the leaders. Napoleon symbolizes Joseph Stalin, who was the leader of Russia. Snowball would be Leo Trotsky who was running against Stalin but was driven away. Squealer is a little bit harder to figure out, but if you think about it, he is always promoting Napoleon and is on his side, so I came to conclusion that he represents the media at the time that was pro Stalin. The other animals would be the regular people who are living in the

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