Read the passage from chapter 5 of Animal Farm. What is Orwell ridiculing in this passage?
That evening Squealer explained privately to the other
animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed
to the windmill. On the contrary, it was he who had
advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which
Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed
had actually been stolen from among Napoleon's
papers. The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon's own
creation. Why, then, asked somebody, had he spoken so
strongly against it? Here Squealer looked very sly. That,
he said, was Comrade Napoleon's cunning. He had
seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a maneuver
to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character
and a bad influence. Now that Snowball was out of the
way, the plan could go forward without his interference.
This, said Squealer, was something called tactics. He
repeated a number of times, "Tactics, comrades,
actics!" skipping round and whisking his tail with a
O He is making fun of the idea of pigs building
something.
O He is making fun of leaders who tell lies to their
people.
O He is making fun of people who question their
leaders.
O He is making fun of pigs calling one another
comrades.
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