SEE NO TRUTH, HEAR NO TRUTH, SPEAK NO TRUTH

THEME

• The theme of Animal Farm is "Don't trust everything you hear, see, or read."
• This book is an allegory to Russian history in the early 20th century

SQUEALER

• Squealer is a pig that is very persuasive on the Animal Farm
• He represents the Russian media in the story.
• He always tries to persuade the other animals that Napoleon is always right
• He is always successful in doing this although what he may be saying is false

SQUEALER AND HIS COUNTERPART

• Squealer symbolizes the corrupt media that was in place during the reign of Stalin.
• During the age of Stalin, he controlled the media and had them say what ever he wanted them to.
• Napoleon used Squealer to disseminate propaganda
• "Russian Revolution of 1917, two revolutions, the first of which, in February (March, New Style), overthrew
• the imperial government and the second of which, in October (November), placed the Bolsheviks in power."

SQUEALERS THEME DEVELOPMENT QUOTE

• "I will even say, comrades, he WOULD have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic Leader, Comrade Napoleon. Do you not remember how, just at the moment when Jones and his men had got inside the yard, Snowball suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him? And do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'Death to Humanity!' and sank his teeth in Jones's leg? Surely you remember THAT, comrades?" exclaimed Squealer, frisking from side to side.
• Do you not remember how, just at the moment when Jones and his men had got inside the yard, Snowball suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him? And do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'Death to Humanity!' and sank his teeth in Jones's leg? Surely you remember THAT, comrades?" exclaimed Squealer, frisking from side to side.
• Suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him? And do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'Death to Humanity!' and sank his teeth in Jones's leg? Surely you remember THAT, comrades?" exclaimed Squealer, frisking from side to side.
• moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'Death to Humanity!' and sank his teeth in Jones's leg? Surely you remember THAT, comrades?" exclaimed Squealer, frisking from side to side.
• Death to Humanity!' and sank his teeth in Jones's leg? Surely you remember THAT, comrades?"

QUOTE ANALYSIS

• If Squealer had not said this, then the animals would have started to lose their trust in Napoleon
• Squealer was telling lies but spinning them as the truth.
• (Quote on previous page, Orwell 81)

CREDITS

• Images found on google images and haiku deck images
• Web pages used, http://zako-animalfarm.weebly.com/propaganda.html
• http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/edsitement.neh.gov/files/worksheets/Animal%...
• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/513907/Russian-Revolution-of-1917
• Quote from Animal Farm