Animal Farm - Squealer.

... Animal Farm Squealer Squealer, a pig, plays a very important role in "Animal Farm." Squealer is the most powerful weapon which Napoleon possesses to control the other animals in the farm. He is the parallel of a propaganda chief in dictatorships like Soviet Russia where propaganda was needed in order to keep the people under control and make the believe in the dictator and whatever he does or may be planning to do. Squealer takes advantage of the other animal's ignorance and exploits it to an unimaginable level. He has excellent talking skills and was believed to be able to turn black into white, and indeed he did. In the early days after the revolution he used to manipulate the animals into thinking that if they should not listen to the pigs, somehow Jones would return. When the pigs wanted to have the milk and apples he convinced the animals

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