One of Squealer’s favourite ways of being persuasive is rhetorical questions. Questions to which he expects no answer, “surely there is not one of you who wants to see Jones come back?” and “why not? You did suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds?” are examples of this, because he, as a smart pig, knows that the animals can be manipulated by leaving them alone with their thoughts. He knows that this will make them easy to manipulate because the animals are not very bright, and tend to rely on smarter animals to figure out the answers for them, so letting them “figure it out” bends them towards what they are being told by a more ‘superior’ mind (e.g. the pigs). However, by leaving them to think about this causes the animals