#squealer animal farm

[gayjew69]

“I WAS WITH HIM… UNTIL THE VERY END…”’okay buddy

[feathery-bastard]

Old ass animal farm fanart go!

(from left to right: Clover, Boxer, Benjamin, Molly, Moses, Snowball, Squealer, Napoleon)

[whydousernamesevenexist]

This meme template just gives me these vibes

[themagicalconchshell]

This is my idea of a very nice evening

[simply-ivanka]

President Joe Biden looks at a note card referencing a reporter and the expected question during a news conference with the South Korean President in the Rose Garden of the White House last April. 

(Repost every time to show the World the President of the United States recites prepared answers at press conferences.)

[cloudedmydude]

you ever create the craziest aus ever and have post au creation clarity

i just spent an hour talking to my friend about 'what if jjk was animal farm' ASHOFAIFUHD

WHAT ON EARTH AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE

jujutsu farm

[makethosenarratorsfight]

REVIVED UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE C

NOTE; This is a revival round. These narrators are not fighting due to being dead

[lima--beanz]

squealeon

[rockets-and-raccoons]

Seeing the utter whiplash on people's faces when I offhandedly make a joke about the time I was held hostage for 9 days and continuing straight past it, is probably my new favourite past time.

[sunset-starr]

Ok, so my class just read animal farm by George Orwell and I was thinking, squealer’s personality is just “gaslighting gatekeep girlboss” and now I can’t stop thinking about it-

(Why do I kinda wanna draw squealer the way I picture him and than photoshop big lips and the nail polish emoji on him? Oh! And I could add “gaslighting gatekeep girlboss” in big pink glitter letters 😆)

[agenderfrenchfry]

“On the third Sunday after Snowball's expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all. He did not give any reason for having changed his mind, but merely warned the animals that this extra task would mean very hard work, it might even be necessary to reduce their rations. The plans, however, had all been prepared, down to the last detail. A special committee of pigs had been at work upon them for the past three weeks. The building of the windmill, with various other improvements, was expected to take two years.

That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon's papers. The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon's own creation. Why, then, asked somebody, had he spoken so strongly against it? Here Squealer looked very sly. That, he said, was Comrade Napoleon's cunning. He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence. Now that Snowball was out of the way, the plan could go forward without his interference. This, said Squealer, was something called tactics. He repeated a number of times, "Tactics, comrades, tactics!" skipping round and whisking his tail with a merry laugh. The animals were not certain what the word meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions.” — Animal Farm, Chapter 5

[gayjew69]

How to talk to your tall comrades (not a reliable tutorial)

[rustyelias]

Okay so it wasn’t oszymandias but omg I cooked so much in that paper!!!!! that was bloody amazing!!!!

If ozymandias shows up on this lit paper I will genuinely break down in tears of joy and kiss someone sloppy style

[candy8448]

What did you guys do in englit2? (AQA)

I didnt have time to look through the paper since i was writing till the last second but im super curious as to what questions came up for all the other texts.

I do an inspector calls and power and conflict so i wanna know the other texts

An Inspector Calls: 1. Mrs Birling and social class, 2. Inspector and social change

Animal Farm: 1. Squealer and power and control

Lord of the Flies: 1. Leadership, 2. The Littluns and trust and fear

Blood Brothers: 1. Mickey's relationship with his mother and Linda

Taste of Honey: 1. Difficult relationships between men and women

Power and Conflict: Kamikaze and effect of conflict on people

Love and Relationships: Neutral Tones and powerful feelings about love

[evergreen-dryad]

Put in the language and form of a fable, it makes this tale immensely readable and accessible. What seems like a comfy tale of the English countryside and a farm and its animals with cute names like 'Bluebell' and 'Clover' quickly devolves from slight inequality (when the pigs keep the milk and apples for themselves, reasoning 'oh, they are the brain workers of the farm') to betrayal and the horror of a totalitarian government, once again replicating what came before the animals rebelled against men.

It's good this tale was told simply and clearly so no fancy word could be used to twist round it, like Squealer did as the propaganda. It's also a small thin book of 100+ pages. Plot felt very quick, true economy of word usage here. Characters are super memorable, each one distinct, and when there isn't a distinct one it's a mass of them. It's essentially post-war non-fiction dressed as fairytale, with no jargon, and it's described almost objectively? So there's no question of bias.

heart broke for boxer. no other words

when the sheep bleated 'four legs good, two legs bad' (the simplification of the motto) I kept dreading that this would one day be used against the poultry as discrimination. Oh nooo. It twisted to 'two legs better', reversing back horrifically to when they were still under men

I thought, Good for Mollie for escaping early when she did, she knew what she wanted and it was to live in the luxury she was used to. Even if that's depicted as a coward.

Squealer is good at what he does, and in turn describes how the media works, chillingly. 'Now when Squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it.' I myself had to reread again just to make sure what exactly had happened. The animals didn't have the luxury of a reread.

it hurt to see the pigs keep twisting things around from a loss to a victory, a death to a celebration, a sale to constant enemies' persecution, etc. And of course, the changing of the commandments, the ideals which they had all worked for, to suit only themselves as the exception. The Constant Distraction of Events

i also thought it was good orwell had both insisted on no royalties for translations for countries too poor, and himself paid for Russian editions [APPENDIX II - preface to Ukrainian edition]

[bookwhurm]

Animal Farm by George Orwell

I’m rendered almost speechless by the relevancy of this title in the world we live in today that was written and published 78 years ago. It’s historically relevant and apparently one of the most devastating blows to Stalin’s agenda.

The thing that I fear the most is how it is still applicable in so many ways. It shows the tools that can be used to achieve a totalitarian government. The steps that need to be taken. They almost always form an “other” to be against. What was once the humans who indeed were taking advantage of them, it then became Snowball, then the nearby farmers. Whichever suited their agenda. Whichever kept the animals from turning inward with their suspicion and kept their worries outside of the ruling of the farm. The 7 commandments were constantly altered, but the intelligence of the pigs and the inability for many of the animals to read and write left the interpretation of it’s history entirely up to the pigs instead of the other animals they ruled over. The speeches and persuasive nature of Squealer was convincing propaganda that soothed any fears of the animals while the part of the sheep (this analogy was not lost on me) was to constantly chant whatever nonsense that Napoleon chose at times when protest was most imminent. To drown out whatever dissent was possible and confuse the masses. It’s hard to think over the shouting of short, catchy phrases.

The complete hypocrisy of the pigs to defy all the commandments by the end of the novel was astounding and it took me by surprise that none of the animals showed any dissent, though it’s not hard to imagine why when compared to the  many humans have turned the same blind eye for atrocities committed in their own countries. As an American, some that I can think of in the past decade were the imprisonment and separation of children of immigrants (the camps of children that no American did anything worth noting about, including me), the increase of rage against any and all racial/ethnic groups especially in the era of the Trump administration (starting with his campaigning against Mexican-Americans and how they ruin the country to the eventual physical abuse that happened to older Asian-Americans because of Covid-19), the continual divide in the classes to the point where most Americans only own 7% of the capital of the country combined (don’t quote me on that, this is from memory), and the events leading up to the 2020 protests for Black Lives Matter.

The important thing to take away from this novel is that while one person alone can’t take on the entirety of the system that was inherently built against them, it takes one person to stand up and rally while the support from those that believe in that message is the most integral to change. Groups accomplish change, whether it’s slowly or quickly like the rebellion on the farm. It also is a grim reminder to stick to your own guns and come to your own conclusions. To not base your beliefs only on what you are told and whichever statistics and facts are hand fed to you, but to do your own research from many different sources. To protect your beliefs and ideals even when you’re told otherwise.

Rating: 10/10 - How could it be anything else