| “ | No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? | „ |
| ~ Squealer displaying his manipulative and sycophantic personality. |
Squealer is the secondary antagonist in the George Orwell story Animal Farm. He is a pig who helps plan the rebellion of the farm animals, but becomes power-hungry and ambitious, aiding Napoleon's takeover and passing down his orders to the other animals.
He was voiced by Maurice Denham (who also voiced Napoleon) in the 1954 animated film and by Ian Holm in the 1999 film.
What Makes Him a Hate Sink?[]
- He's a power-hungry bully who helps Napoleon take over the farm and oppress the other animals.
- As a propaganda outlet, he enforces many laborious and even outright cruel tasks to the other animals to support Napoleon's hold over the farm:
- Hoards the best food along with the other pigs while the other animals starve and forces them to work.
- Falsely slanders Snowball as a traitor to discredit him, eventually succeeding in driving him away from the farm.
- Alters the Seven Commandments to justify Napoleon's atrocities.
- Uses false statistics to convince the animals that their lives are better.
- Successfully sold Boxer to the glue factory once the last of the horse's strength was used up.
- In addition to being a deceitful, selfish, and hypocritical enforcer, he's also a coward and hides during the Battle of the Windmill.
- In the novels, he gets away scot-free with all his crimes and continues to live lavishly in Napoleon's Animal Farm, with the animals continuing to suffer like they did in the beginning of the story.
- While his demises of getting trampled in the 1954 film and being killed in a thunderstorm in the 1999 film are terrible, they are not played for sympathy in the slightest considering his countless crimes in aiding Napoleon.
- Unlike Napoleon, Squealer lacks the former's charisma, leaving him nothing more than a sycophantic and power-hungry enforcer that only picks on weaker animals.