Animal Farm - Squealer - Character analysis in GCSE English Literature


	Personality	Role
	Persuasive ("The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white") Deceptive (Squealer feeds Napoleon's propaganda to the animals) Cowardly ("Squealer, who had unaccountably been absent during the fighting").	Becomes an intermediary between Napoleon and the animals, delivering orders and, especially, giving them Napoleon's propaganda. He glorifies Napoleon to the animals, and tells Napoleon what the animals say or do (Boxer tells Squealer that he does not believe Snowball was a traitor at the beginning. At the next meeting, Napoleon's dogs go to attack Boxer. Orwell tells us that Squealer "cast a very ugly look at Boxer with his twinkling eyes" before turning to go. The reader can easily imagine him going straight to Napoleon and informing him.
	Development (Growth & change)	Other information
	Starts off as one of the pigs, though described from the beginning as very persuasive. Becomes the main link between Napoleon and the animals and more powerful because of this.	Squealer represents Vyacheslav Molotov who was Stalin's protégé and head of Communist propaganda. Squealer might also represent the Soviet newspaper, Pravda.

Becomes an intermediary between Napoleon and the animals, delivering orders and, especially, giving them Napoleon's propaganda. He glorifies Napoleon to the animals, and tells Napoleon what the animals say or do (Boxer tells Squealer that he does not believe Snowball was a traitor at the beginning. At the next meeting, Napoleon's dogs go to attack Boxer. Orwell tells us that Squealer "cast a very ugly look at Boxer with his twinkling eyes" before turning to go. The reader can easily imagine him going straight to Napoleon and informing him.

Starts off as one of the pigs, though described from the beginning as very persuasive. Becomes the main link between Napoleon and the animals and more powerful because of this.

Squealer represents Vyacheslav Molotov who was Stalin's protégé and head of Communist propaganda. Squealer might also represent the Soviet newspaper, Pravda.

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