Glenn wrote:
Look Bender, hardworking district homeowners just want
the fuel to improve the district and keep the good
children safe. Why should they toil with hungry bellies?
You ranter, you had your chance to rail against this
community improvement; this so called local harvesting.
He- he-he-ha-ha-ha. Now shut up and put an organic apple
in your mouth!
Animal Farm?
Squealer --
The pig who spreads Napoleon's propaganda among the other
animals. Squealer justifies the pigs' monopolization of
resources and spreads false statistics pointing to the
farm's success. Orwell uses Squealer to explore the ways in
which those in power often use rhetoric and language to
twist the truth and gain and maintain social and political
control.
Throughout his career, Orwell explored how politicians
manipulate language in an age of mass media. In Animal Farm,
the silver-tongued pig Squealer abuses language to justify
Napoleon's actions and policies to the proletariat by
whatever means seem necessary. By radically simplifying
language -- as when he teaches the sheep to bleat "Four legs
good, two legs better!" -- he limits the terms of debate. By
complicating language unnecessarily, he confuses and
intimidates the uneducated, as when he explains that "a
bird's wing... is an organ of propulsion and not of
manipulation." In this latter strategy, he also employs
jargon ("tactics, tactics") as well as a baffling vocabulary
of false and impenetrable statistics, engendering in the
other animals both self-doubt and a sense of hopelessness
about ever accessing the truth without the pigs' mediation.
Squealer's lack of conscience and unwavering loyalty to his
leader, alongside his rhetorical skills, make him the
perfect propagandist for any tyranny. Squealer's name also
fits him well: squealing, of course, refers to a pig's
typical form of vocalization, and Squealer's speech defines
him. At the same time, to squeal also means to betray, aptly
evoking Squealer's behavior with regard to his fellow animals.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/characters.html
..................
UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
[aka laserbeam®]
[aka ray]
SERIAL LIAR. CALL FOR RATES.
----
You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the
list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see
<http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
