Question
How does Orwell present propaganda in Animal Farm? Use Squealer as a starting point. (30 marks)
Mark scheme guidance:
- Squealer's techniques: appeal to fear ("Jones will come back"); false statistics; revision of history ("surely you do not remember correctly"); the sheep as a chorus of slogans.
- The rewriting of the Commandments — one of literature's most precise accounts of how language is manipulated.
- "Some animals are more equal than others" — the grammatical absurdity makes the corruption visible.
- The animals' limited memory exploited by Squealer — manipulation of historical record.
- Context: Soviet propaganda (Pravda); Orwell's Politics and the English Language (1946) — "the great enemy of clear language is insincerity".
- Top answers: argue Squealer is the novel's most chilling character because he shows how language enables oppression.
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