Napoleon's Manipulative Language In Squealer '

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As Napoleon’s right hand man, Squealer enforces the idea that Napoleon’s power is above all and no other thoughts or ideas will be accepted. Squealer uses his manipulative language to trick the animals into believing Napoleon’s objectives. Squealer takes advantage of the sheep to help support Napoleon’s case. “The sheep spent the whole day [at the waste ground] browsing at the leaves under Squealer’s supervision…[Squealer] was, he said, teaching them to sing a new song, fro which privacy is needed” (88). He uses the sheep that cannot think for themselves to make Napoleon’s new changes seem more acceptable as they seem like they are already supporting it. Squealer tells the animals he is teaching them a song to hopefully prevent them from making

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