This character appears in 4 books.
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Squealer: Squealer is a small, fat pig who acts as Napoleon's mouthpiece. He is symbolic of Vyacheslav Molotov, and is shown to the most quickly and easily corrupted of the pigs.
Memorable Quotes by Squealer:
“We pigs are brainworkers”
“"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.”
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Orwell and Politics (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
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Animal Farm / 1984 (collective work)
by George Orwell
Squealer: The pig who spreads Napoleon’s propaganda among the other animals. Squealer justifies the pigs’ monopolization of resources and spreads false statistics pointing to the farm’s success. Orwell uses Squealer to explore the ways in which those in power often use rhetoric and language to twist the truth and gain and maintain social and political control.
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