Animal Farm Quotes

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Animal farm written by George Orwell tells the story of the Russian revolution through the eyes and actions of farm animals. The animals revolt against their farmer Mr.Jones in order to stop the cruelty being inflicted on them. In a turn of events the new leader Napoleon also starts to treat the animals unfairly. We see in the last chapter the quote “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig… but already it was impossible to say which was which”. Showing the cycle the animalism tried to break when they revolted has been repeated once again. Animal Farm demonstrates that behind every leader there is always an individual working beyond to manipulate the followers, doing all of the “dirty work” for the hierarchy. Squealer …show more content…

He is seen as an ally by the animals, almost as a friend. The animals trust him vs how they dont trust Napoleon because of all the wrongs he brought into animalism's ideas and morals. Squealer is Constantly using “comrades” in his speeches to make himself more likable and friendly, pg (69). This convinces the animals that Squealer is a friend more than their hierarchy. Squealer gets all the same benefits as Napoleon without having all of the animals hate him because of all the things taking place that go against animalism. Squealer's speech on pg(80) talking about how the pigs get to sleep on beds because Napoleon is doing so much more work for the farm than any other animal. Squealer gets all the same benefits as Napoleon while not having all the animals hate him and put a target on his back. This would cause him to not want to step up, along with this the idea that being able to be on both sides of the farm could be very beneficial.If the animals had chosen to revolt against Napoleon, Squealer could have easily banned together with the animals to overthrow their “ruler”. He only is the messenger for Neaolplition therefore the animals have no reason to hate the messenger but more so the

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