How Does Squealer Use Language In Animal Farm

People throughout history have a way of using language in different formats to express or prove a point in books, speeches, or newspapers. There are ways it is used for the good, like Susan B. Anthony fighting for women’s rights; and for the bad, like Adolf Hitler discriminating against Judaism in his speeches while chancellor of Germany. In the allegory “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, the characters’ use language in a powerful way, whether it’s positive or negative, to allude to the reign of communism in Russia during the early 1900’s. Old major exerts his power and positive language when trying to inspire the animals on the farm. Snowball also uses his language in a positive manner, where a high concentration of it is used to keep the animals hopeful. However, the characters Napoleon and Squealer use language in a negative way to deceive the animals of the farm in a way that is beneficial for them. In all, through fear/encouragement, reassurance, and manipulation/threats, the main characters show how powerful language, whether positive or
The animals find out that the pigs are eating the milk and apples that all the other animals are working for, Squealer deceives the animals, not to seek forgiveness but to get reassurance of the animals’ satisfaction. " ‘Comrades!’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health’ ” (Orwell 35) Squealer makes the animals believe that they only ate the food because they are the leaders of the farm and they need the “brain food” to lead correctly, to really seal the deal Squealer tells the animals that he did not like the apples and milk. Squealer’s language, for the most part is used in deceiving the animals, which is demonstrated after Boxer’s