7 Commandments In Animal Farm By George Orwell

Napoleon, the revolutionary leader, was a power hungry and abusive pig. When the animals wouldn’t listen he had to have them follow his rules and visions. He brainwashed the animals into believing whatever he said, threatened them and used popular animals to convey his desires. As dictatorship was the most prominent form of governing during the revolution, the leader used techniques to influence the animals’ opinion.

The pigs can read and write perfectly. The dogs can only read the 7 Commandments also Muriel can read anything and often reads newspapers. Benjamin can read but chooses not to. Clover learned the alphabet, but he cant put the words from the alpha bet together cannot put words together. Boxer cannot get past the letter D. Mollie refuses to learn anything except the letters that spell her name none of the other animals learn anything but the letter A and some cannot even memorize the commandments.

This quote explains what has happen to animal farm. The 7 commandments that were made showed the peace and happiness that all the

After the rebellion on Manor Farm and the banishment of Mr.Jones the animals set up seven guidelines in which to govern themselves by, known as the “Commandments”. All the animals on the farm help devise and inscribe them on the side of the barn to ensure their visibility to all. The pigs manipulation of these commandments to gain control over the other animals is an evidence of the power of language manipulation demonstrated in the novel. To begin, the pigs broke the commandment “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy” and through the use of powerful speech justify their actions to the other animals. “Napoleon announced that he had decided upon a new policy. From now onwards Animal Farm would engage in trade with neighbouring farms: not of course, for any commercial

The novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell expresses the idea of self-government through the animals. The animals play the role of humans. Because the animals decide that they want to run the farm by themselves, they make up a way of living called Animalism. The Seven Commandments (Animal Farm's Constitution) under which they live are based on these major principles of Animalism. As time passes, the Seven Commandments undergoes subtle changes as the pigs rewrite it to suit their own agenda. The Seven Commandments may be said to be the key to understanding Animal Farm.

The characters in Animal Farm depict leaders, and people during the Cold War. There are multiple character throughout the novel, three of the most important in this story are Snowball, Squealer, and Napoléon. All three of these characters helped code Old Majors ideas into the Commandments of Animalism. The Commandments of Animalism are “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy’, “Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is a friend”, “No animal shall wear clothes”, No animal shall sleep in a bed”, No animal shall drink alcohol”, “No animal shall kill another animal”, and “all animals are equal” (Daine and Hile). These commandments are created by the three characters together although they do not all cooperate very well.

They were meant to keep the harmony between all animals and only discriminated against humans, stating that, “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy; Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings is a friend”. (Orwell 43). The commandments were also created with the intent that no animal would ever act like a human, lest the animals would fall into the same hierarchy held by man, saying, “No animal shall wear clothes; No animal shall sleep in a bed; No animal shall drink alcohol; No animal shall kill any other animal.” (Orwell 43). The last commandment, “All animals are equal”(Orwell 43), arguably the most important, signifies the most basic idea of Animal-Socialism. Once this commandment is altered, there is no hope for the animals because the farm has fallen completely to totalitarianism. The Seven Commandments were meant to unify, and the animals take this to heart, causing them to remain ignorant, allowing the farm to

The 7 Commandments were changed again and again throughout the whole book. At one time some of the 7 Commandments stated; no animal should sleep in a bed, no animal should drink alcohol, and no animal should smoke tobacco. The keys principles of Animal Farm were; four legs good, two legs bad, and all animals are equal. By the end of the book

The plot of Animal Farm is made of many events. There is the initial rebellion of the animals against Farmer Jones. This rebellion begins the rest of the story and struggles that come along. The animals are left having to figure out how to run the farm themselves while also keeping law and order. The pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, step up as leaders and create the Seven Commandments which start out as: “1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3. No animal shall wear clothes. 4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. 5. No animal shall drink alcohol. 6. No animal shall kill any other animal. 7. All animals are equal” (Orwell 24). Snowball’s approach to freedom was an idea of complete equality; all the animals worked for their share of the food. Napoleon

In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, they make comparisons about what communism is. The book compare animals to humans, and they use the pigs in place of the ones who get payed more, those are normally the ones with more power. A lot of the time people with power get absorbed and begin to fade away from there first intentions. Which in this case was good.

However, the pigs had a change in mind. They decided to be leaders of the farm because they believed they were the smartest. Nonetheless, they unknowingly become “human”. This is where the quote comes into play. The pigs start to forget how Jones acted and started to become Jones but in animal form. They even changed all the commandments to satisfy all their needs. They turned “No animal can sleep in a bed,” to “No animal can sleep in a bed with sheets.” And “No animal can drink alcohol,” to “No animal can drink alcohol to excess,” and so on and so forth. This just shows that the pigs did not want to break the seven commandments so instead, they changed it to make it seem like they are doing nothing

In the story, there was a power-hungry leaders such as Napoleon who greatly limited the animals fighting chance against the humans. Anyway, the point of summarizing the story is to point out how government control was despised by the characters in Animal Farm and how people in real life live in a similar situation—in a situation where government control in the form of policies, laws, and constitutions, is also viewed negatively. To complete the similarity between Animal farm and real life, the members of the animal farm can be thought of as the people in real life and the Seven Commandments of Animalism as the government control laws and policies that were meant to control the interaction of the people with other people and their

Two other commandments are harmonious in showing the drastic difference in appearance versus reality on the farm. “Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend” And “No animal shall kill any other animal” both make it clear to see how things began on the farm. In the beginning, the animals were all comrades and even the thought of killing another or not working for the good of all was unheard of. Later in the story, both commandments are betrayed when they send Boxer, the hardworking and loyal horse to the slaughterhouse. The pigs then tell the rest of the animals that Boxer went to the vet, but unfortunately they could not help him and he ended up dying, of course with Squealer right by his side. “It would have been the first time that he had had leisure to study and

The theme of Animal Farm by George Orwell is the corrupting effect of power. At the beginning of the book, Old Major describes the abuse that the animals experience, and predicts that one day the animals will eventually overthrow their human masters and build an equal society. When the animals of Manor Farm drive off Mr. Jones, it appears that day has come. By virtue of their leadership of the revolution, we quickly see that the pigs have quickly become corrupted by power. The corruption of the principles of the revolution is also seen when all of the Seven Commandments are being secretly changed. By the end of the novel, the commandments and shrunk to one commandment, which reads "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN

In "Animal Farm,” the pigs make up the 7 commandments that all of the animals in the