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 (song) Animal Farm (song) "Animal Farm" is the first track on the second side of the Kinks' 1968 album, "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society". The track was written by the Kinks' main songwriter, Ray Davies. The lyrics of "Animal Farm" visit an escapism theme (one that would be returned to in "Apeman" and "Supersonic Rocket Ship"), with the singer wanting to flee to "where real animals are playing." He yearns "to be back there, among the cats and dogs and the pigs and the goats on Animal Farm, [his] animal home." The singer dreams of his girlfriend, "though