In the story, Squealer shows he is the propagandist in many different situations. His ability to use language, gaslight, and persuade others is very effective. This ability affects specific animals and the events that occur.
A specific example is when Squealer sneakily attempted to gaslight the animals into believing something that they truly did not see.
(80) “They all remembered or thought they remembered, how they had seen Snowball charging ahead of that at the Battle of the Cowshed, how he had rallied and encouraged them at every turn, and how he had not paused for an instant even when the pellets from Jones’s gun had wounded his back. Even Boxer, who seldom asked questions, was puzzled. ‘But he was wounded,’ said Boxer. ‘We all saw him running with blood.’ ‘That was part of the arrangement!’ cried Squealer. Now when Squealer described the scene so graphically, to seemed to the animals that they did remember it.”
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Squealer nervously stepped from left to right and tried to come up with a believable answer to tell everyone.
This quote proves exactly what I stated in my thesis. When someone opposes an opinion of Squealer’s, they are immediately corrected, whether or not the correction is right.
As expressed, Squealer is an untrustworthy propagandist whose main goal is to gaslight his “comrades” with fake