Animal Farm

How does Orwell use Squealer to explore the power of language in Animal Farm?

How does George Orwell use the character of Squealer to explore the power of language in Animal Farm?

- How Orwell develops the character of Squealer

- How Orwell uses the character of Squealer to explore the idea of language being powerful

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Squealer is an expert manipulator of language. He is a politician that has perfected the art of "spin". Squealer can "spin" lies and half-truths into fact. Squealer was actually able to make the past malleable to suit Napoleon's agenda. Snowball, the only pig with Old Major's vision, was turned into a traitorous saboteur through Squealers manipulations of language and information. We, of course, have experienced this during the American election through countless stories of "fake news" that was turned into "fact".