Squeeler often tries to plant false memories into the 'lower animals' minds. He is skilled at painting his lies vividly and with every little detail that the animals become convince that the event did occur. Squeeler puts a small significant part of a true event in his lie to conjure up a confusing mixture of truth and lie. He often addresses the animas as "comrades". He uses words formally, as in a respectful manner, in order to make the animals comfortable and put their trust in him. Furthermore, he always includes that the pigs are that brainworkers and emphasizes their work dramatically. He even convinced them of allowing the pigs to consume all the batches of apples, all the gallons of milk, and sleep in beds y connecting the safety of the 'lower animals' to the absolute power of the pigs. In desperate times, he refers to Napoleon as the leader, which mostly catches the loyalty in Boxer. Boxer is an extremely obedient, hard-working animal. By influencing Boxer, it influences others easier because Boxer's hard work and nobility is respected. The 'lower animals' tend to follow one another's point of views, if one agrees, the others eventually follows. Squeeler is able to cover up the injustice Napoleon and the pigs with higher power committed. Here is an example:
" Comrades!... Do you know what the real reason was? Snowball was in league with Jones from the very start! He was Jones' secret agent all the time. It has all been proved by the secret documents which he left behind. To my mind, this explains a great deal, Comrades. Did we not see for ourselves how he attempted- fortunately without success- to get us defeated and destroyed at the Battle of Cowshed?" (89).Squeeler's voice proves to be one of Napoleon's greatest protections because throughout the story, Napoleon never actually speaks. What he has to say is narrated, instead of by quotation marks of the works of the words he is actually saying. It is hard to tell whether Napoleon is as an influential speaker like Squeeler or not. When Napoleon and Snowball have debates, Snowball always won. The author never writes out small passages from Napoleon's speeches, like he does for Snowball and Squeeler's speeches. After Snowball was expelled and Napoleon obtained the ultimate control of the farm, people began to listen to him more. His ideas were carried out not because he is persuasive, but because he uses fear to threaten the 'lower animals'. Moreover, since he is now known as the leader, the others' respect him more. His main tools are the menacing dogs. The 'lower animals' did not have the intelligence to acknowledge the threats by Napoleon yet because Squeeler always back up Napoleon's actions. He explains Napoleon's ideas to others persuasively so the animals do not feel the injustice Napoleon is committing. In the part where Snowball was driven away by Napoleon's ferocious dogs,
" Napoleon, with the dogs following him, now mounted on to the raised portion of the floor where Major had previously stood to deliver his speech. He announced that from now on the Sunday-morning Meetings would come to an end. They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time."Afterwards,
"Four young pokers in the front row uttered shrill squeals of disapproval, and all four of them sprang to their feet and began speaking at once. But suddenly to their feet and began speaking at once. But suddenly the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again" (69).
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