Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview... a chatty pig who works closely with Napoleon, the de facto leader of Animal Farm. Squealer spreads news far and wide, both orally and in writing. Much of what he says is obviously propaganda, but most of the working-class animals aren’t sharp enough to see through his rhetoric.
Personality… conniving, opportunistic, and gluttonous. Squealer basically shows up on political scene long after the revolution has happened. He’s not a fighter, he's a talker – and if anyone can convince the worker animals to go along with Napoleon's schemes, it's Squealer.
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Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artistry, and moral authority; in animal farm his spare prose and the logic of his dark comedy brilliantly highlight his stark message. Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolution, Orwell lays out a vision that, in its bitter wisdom, gives us the clearest understanding we possess of the possible consequences of our social and political acts.
