Of Mice and Men Exam Questions with Answers

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1a) From the extract, what do you discover about the character of Squealer? Use Evidence from the extract to support your answer. In the extract, we discover Squealer explaining the new arrangements to the other animals and the finding of trust shared by Napoleon, which illustrates him being in alliance with the pigs. He addresses the other animals as 'comrades', portraying him to be seen as one of them, and as equal as them, thus portraying equality and importance throughout the farm animals. Therefore he appears to be trustworthy and friendly with all of the animals, allowing them to believe that he is, and belongs with them and not with the pigs of higher authority. Squealer speaks of leadership as 'extra labour' and, in doing so, promotes Napoleon as widely admirable, commendable and highly idolised by creating an image of Napoleon making a 'sacrifice'. This forces the animals into believing that he is the supreme leader and is massively superior to Mr Jones. However Napoleon and his companions are extremely corrupt and dishonest, especially in conjunction with Squealer because of his responsibility as a burden. He uses guilt and fear to instigate the anxiousness of jones’ tyranny coming back into power over the animals’ mind sets. We also discover that Squealer is deceitful, since he manipulates the truth from past events (Such as the Snowball incident in the Battle of the Cowshed upon where Snowball lead the farm to victory, however Squealer later twisted the truth, therefore misleading the animals into thinking that what they saw was mistaken for Squealer’s words), and misleads them into believing that they are as alike as the pigs with higher authority by telling them that they are all equal. However, because they 'might make the wrong decisions', they must trust Napoleon, or alternatively have Jones back in charge at the barn, which is very
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