Squealer (Animal Farm) Squealer (Animal Farm) Squealer is a fictional character, a pig, in George Orwell's "Animal Farm". He serves as second-in-command to Napoleon, the pigs' leader, and is the farm's minister of propaganda. He is described in the book to be an effective and very convincing orator. In the book, he is described as merely a fat pig, but in the 1954 film, he is a pink pig, whereas in the 1999 film, he is a Tamworth pig who wears a monocle. Throughout the novel Squealer is highly skilled at making speeches to the animals. He is also one of the leaders
Animal Farm outside gaze at the scene and look from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, they can no longer distinguish between the two. George Orwell wrote the manuscript in 1943 and 1944 subsequent to his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, which he described in "Homage to Catalonia" (1938). In the preface of a 1947 Ukrainian edition of "Animal Farm", he explained how escaping the communist purges in Spain taught him "how easily totalitarian propaganda can control the opinion of enlightened people in democratic countries". This motivated Orwell to expose and strongly condemn