The passage I examined is from Squealer’s speech in which you see him establish his intelligence over all the animals. Along with manipulation, he confuses his peers through complex words. When animals complained to Squealer, he simply changes the subject or explains the matter in a way that others wouldn’t understand. Squealer uses the word “Comrades,” to acquire his peers attention when he started delivering his message. This is a repetitive trait that Squealer portrays. He also uses descriptive verbs when he attempts to prove his point, he displays how he wants his speech understood. Over and over again he persuades his peers from their problems using complex and confusing words.
“Comrades! You do not imagine that we pigs are doing this in spirit of selfishness and privilege.” Another great quote that deeply shows insight into what the animals think of Squealer is, “The other said of Squealer that he could…show more content… He employs this tactic late in the novel in a key instance of propaganda and manipulation when he teaches the sheep the phrase “‘Four legs good, two legs better'” (51) so that they might cry it out at the appropriate moment to silence any dissent that might arise from the other animals when they see the pigs walking upright in direct contradiction to the original maxim of Animalism “Four legs good, two legs bad” (12). Clearly, Squealer is a master at orchestrating events so that they turn in the pigs’ favor, for the sheep bleat out their simple refrain at the exact moment when the brow-beaten, brainwashed animals might have spoken out, “as though at a signal” (51). And, of course, Squealer is the pig behind that signal, manipulating words and events with equal measures of abandon so that the confused animals no longer know what, or how, to think. Instead, they wish only to be told what to do, convinced by Squealer’s propaganda that they are nothing without the pigs’
