Manipulation In George Orwell's Animal Farm

In George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, the animals on Manor Farm incite a rebellion, changing the farm to Animal Farm. The progress and changes of Animal Farm are shown over the span of a few years as the leadership of the pigs become corrupt and the farm’s leader, Napoleon, becomes a tyrant. Though the goal of Animal Farm is attained, the animals end up getting worse treatment in the form of heavy manipulation and stress caused by living under a tyrant.
While the animals on Manor Farm are in a relatively calm routine, the nature of Animal Farm leads to many stressful and dramatic situations. This stress and drama becomes an issue once Napoleon becomes leader. In this part of the story, Napoleon has run Snowball off the farm with a pack of wild dogs and the rest of the animals are threatened with the same fate. Orwell writes, “Silent and

During this section of the novella, dedicated workhorse, Boxer, collapses due to what he says is a problem with his lung. The animals are told that Boxer is being taken to a hospital, but realize that he is being taken in a van that reads, “Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon.” When these concerns are brought to Napoleon’s main associate, Squealer, he tells the animals that the van used to belong to a glue factory, but had taken Boxer to a hospital in Willingdon. Squealer lies about being there at Boxer’s final moments and says, “It was the most affecting sight I’ve ever seen […] And at the very end, he whispered in my ear that his sole sorrow was to have passed on before the windmill was finished. ‘Forward comrades!’ he whispered” (Orwell 124). As if the lying itself weren’t bad enough, Squealer tells these lies in a way to emotionally manipulate the animals and make them believe that no matter their fate, they must always stay loyal to Animal