In Animal Farm a key character that distributed propaganda to the Farm was Squealer. ... Squealer's continuous support to Napoleon alike of the Pravda, made him unpopular, due to the fact that he made up stories to cover for Napoleon's controversial decisions and he convinced the animals that the pigs were the leaders and the rest of the farm worked hard to please the farm overall, when really it was only to provide for the pigs. ... When Pilkington, a neighboring farmer who has been betrayed by Animal Farm, sends a reply for the cry of help from the pigs, he says "serves you r...

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Orwell has chosen as characters animals that exhibit similar traits to the people or organisations they are meant to represent. ... Orwell's naive use of a narrative voice allows us as readers to be aware of more information than the narrator or any other characters; and using this knowledge to relate back to the historical events of the Russian Revolution. ... Through the misleading alteration of the commandments, Orwell uses irony to demonstrate how the pigs influenced the foundations of an equal society, which further became the foundations of a totalitarian dictatorship. "Curious...

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