Squealer Speech Rhetorical Analysis

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While Squealer’s address to the other animals employs an intrinsic ethos, pathos, and logos, his use of pathos is particularly effective in rationalizing the pigs’ exclusive access to the milk and apples as essential for the collective well-being of all the animals on the farm. Through utilizing repetition, diction, and posing rhetorical questions, Squealer reinforces his deceitful narrative and ultimately manipulates the emotions of the animals to solidify the pigs’ authority. Squealer begins by addressing the other animals as “comrades.” As he repeats “comrades” throughout his speech, he makes the animals believe that he is talking to them as an equal: using pathos, he appeals to the animals’ sense of camaraderie and identity. This, in turn,