From quite early on in the novel, Orwell portrays Snowball as one who is a good leader being both intelligent and a confident speaker ‘Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive’. Generally, he shares similar qualities to the other animals in that he is intent on Old Major’s ideas of Animalism, making the rise of animals prosperous and wanting a firm segregation from humans, and in a way he is naïve to the power and manipulation within his opposition Napoleon- by gaining the animal’s support he almost becomes oblivious to other members who could have conflicting views. Orwell is presenting to the reader the element of corruption in 20th century Russia, showing us that you can’t trust anyone- not even your comrade. By displaying this through such a powerful and influential character like Snowball, it is easier for us to understand how the other animals could have then been so controlled by Napoleon. Snowball doesn’t see him as a threat until it is too late due to clever organisation and planning.
Squealer Manipulative Ways Animal Farm, written by George Orwell is an allegory reflecting the horrifying effects of a totalitarian government. One of Orwell’s characters, Squealer (based on Vyacheslav Molotov) is a clever and very persuasive pig. His job: to promote Napoleons personal image and later on, become his intermediary. He cunningly justifies “Comrade Napoleons” actions when the other animals begin to question his authority. He exploits the animals on Animal Farm by using erroneous information and abusing their emotions as techniques to sway them.
Analysis of Squealer from Animal Farm Squealer represents the chief minister of propaganda, who uses trickery, and deception to persuade the masses. Squealer's charismatic intelligence and unwavering loyalty to "comrade" Napoleon makes him the ideal propagandist for any tyranny. Throughout the book, Squealer acts as a spokesman for Napoleon, justifying his actions and policies. He succeeds because the animals fail to notice how he slowly twists the truth. Squealer has all the characteristics of a successful orator; he is charismatic, intelligent, emotional, persuasive, and even hypnotic.
During the timber selling incident, Napoleon first denounced Frederick as an evil man who tortured animals, and told the animals that the other contestant, Mr. Pilkington, was a good man. However, after Frederick offered more money for the timber than Mr. Pilkington, Napoleon told Animal Farm that these claims were lies, and that Mr. Pilkington was evil and Fredrick was good. Napoleon sells the timber to Mr. Frederick, who proves his sneaky nature by giving Napoleon counterfeit bills. Napoleon is enraged, Mr. Frederick attacks Animal Farm, and Mr. Pilkington refuses to help because of what Napoleon had said about him. Even so, Animal Farm comes out victorious, but not before the deaths of many humans and animals.
A pig named snowball tries to change napoleons way to make all the animals life’s better, he tries to follow Old Majors commands. But Snowball is then chased out and banished by Napoleon. He tells the animals he was banished for their benefit but really Napoleon has just taken complete control and was abusing his power. Boxer, one of the horses, was injured by a cart of rocks falling on him. He could no longer work, napoleon tells the animals he is going to send him to hospital to get better but he is not.
Babe is a pig that wants to become a sheep dog. All of the other animals find this to be outrageous and feel that this is not the normal behaviour for a pig. Babe is thrown to the outer fringes of the farm animal society and is teased for his actions. He tries to fit in with several different animal groups but is rejected. At last he shows his prowess and love of herding sheep by rescuing the other sheep and winning the competition.
The author describes Snowball as “a more vivacious pig” that is “quicker in speech and more inventive” than Napoleon, meaning that Snowball has great speaking skills that help him win the attention and loyalty to his fellow animals and exhibits innovative ideas that may help the farm both economically and socially (Orwell 12). Although Snowball has certain flaws such as allowing the creation of a greatly divided social hierarchy, he attempts to create animal rebellions throughout the countryside in other farms and better living conditions for the animals. However, these qualities fail Snowball and allow Napoleon to take complete control of the farm. When Snowball proposes the idea to create a windmill for electric power to the farm, his speech “conjured up images” in the animals “of fantastic machines which would do their work as they grazed in their fields,” and his words brought “astonishment,” hope, and motivation to work to achieve a dream (35). Snowball tries to use peaceful ways to run the farm, but Napoleon’s brutal, relentless rule proves to prevail after Napoleon commands his secret dog police to chase
Towards the end of the story she find Lennie in the barn and start being flirty because she knows she can make him talk to her. This was a bad quality of hers though because it ultimately led to her demise. The final type of power is the power of authority from Curly and his dad. Curly’s dad is the boss which give Curly his own power, or so he sees it. Curly’s dad has the power to fire anyone he doesn’t like from the farm which is true authority.
He uses many themes to convey his main points to this allegory, such as corruption, abuse of power and social order. The corruption of the self-appointed authorities of Animalism is also a crucial theme portrayed in Animal Farm. At the beginning of the story, we find the pigs in much the same predicament as the other animals on the farm. They are all exploited ruthlessly by an authority which cares little for their plight. Playing a leading role in the ensuing revolution the pigs find themselves with more and more power over the trusting and naïve population of Animal Farm.
Snowball’s control of Animal Farm is seen as decent, whereas Napoleon’s is corrupt. Snowball actually contributed as a political head with ideas to improve Animal Farm. He “buried himself with organising the other animals into what he called Animal Committees. He was indefatigable at this.” –pg 19. Snowball devoted time and effort for the success of the other animals.