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
Pilkington (Animal Farm) Pilkington (Animal Farm) Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood Farm is a fictional human character in George Orwell's satirical novel "Animal Farm." Pilkington is based on Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Mr Pilkington has a larger but more unkempt farm, and is on bad terms with Mr Frederick of Pinchfield Farm. Frederick's farm is adjacent to Animal Farm on the opposite side, to which Animal Farm acts as a buffer zone, sandwiched between Pinchfield and Foxwood. Frederick is in ways the antithesis of Pilkington; he is comparatively poorer and has less land than Pilkington; however Pinchfield is more efficiently run and