Animal Farm Corruption

In Animal Farm, the pigs used their superior knowledge to persuade the other animals into thinking whatever they say is true. The first example of this in the novel is when the pigs are caught sleeping in beds. Clover remembered a rule against animals sleeping in beds, but when she went to check, she found “...herself unable to read more than individual letters...”(47) When she finally finds someone that can read the rules, it seems as though it has changed. This lack of education shown in Clover allows the pigs to change one of the Seven Commandments. Yet another example of the pigs changing history is just a few chapters later. Originally, the sixth commandment stated that no animal shall kill another animal, however when the animals checked after the massacre put on by Napoleon, “It ran: "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause." (63) This once again goes to show that without education, these animals are susceptible to deception. The pigs realize the power they have and use it against the unintelligent animals in order to cover up their

Animal Farm written by George Orwell is an animal fable happens in a farm where animals start building a communism society, but end up being totalitarianism, hinting obliquely at the communists in the real world. The gaps between pigs and other common animals, demonstrate the theme that the corruption of power appears when majority is ruled. The intelligence superior allows the pigs placing themselves at a position which is closer to the power and which is more easily to corrupt. The inability to question the authorization makes the other common animals becoming the naïve working class who suffers the corrupting influence of power. The nature of pigs, greed, is the source of their undying lust for ultimate power. At the end, the

Throughout the ending of the text, it’s shown that the pigs are becoming more human-like, adapting to more human-like nature, which was what they were attempting to get rid of in the first place. They change the commandments that were written to get rid of humans, making them more accepting for human behavior. “No animal shall sleep in a bed” is changed to “No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,” and “No animal shall drink alcohol” is changed to, “No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.” The pigs even convince the sheep to chant, “Four legs good, two legs better,” instead of, “Four legs good, two legs bad.” This shows how the pigs are slowly becoming more human, and adapting to more human behaviours. The quote, “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which,” also proves this point, showing how the pigs have become so human-like that it’s hard to tell the difference between the

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

Can pigs run a farm? Well in Animal Farm they can. Animal Farm by George Orwell is about animals overthrowing a farmer named Mr.Jones. This story is an allegory. While one meaning shows the animals overthrowing the farm, the other and more deeper meaning represent the Russian Revolution. The animals overthrow the farm to create a utopia. Napoleon remains in charge because of causing fear to the animals, changing the rules of Animalism, and using tools of propaganda.

"There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS." The quote is saying that all animals are to be treated the same but some should be treated more than the same. Or animals are to be treated equally but some should be treated higher than the equal. This is foreshadowing to the events that will come.Clover read those words and she was reading it to the other animals. This is important to the story this shows that the pigs are completely in power and that they should be above all the other animals. This quote shows how the pigs became more and more like humans. They think they are the superior species among animals. Furthermore, they just threw away animals for

In chapter 2, when the 7 commandments were first written down, there was already a slight corruption in the pigs. The pigs steal the milk and apples and explain it with the lie that these foods have nutrients essential to pigs, which need these

The pigs show they have complete control over everything and everyone. Many animals are killed and crushed because of wrong doing or being in the way, which is seen as ok due to Napoleons amount of power and how he can go across doing things. The commandments that the pigs had originally wrote down always seems to be changing to then suit the pigs in the way they acted and how they went about, which all the animals had noticed but never spoke aloud about it, or anything at all, because of what they knew Napoleon was capable of doing and how much of the farm he had already corrupted for his

One day Squealer goes to the barn drunk and can barely stand and the animals start to question it. They see that the commandment was changed to “No animal shall drink alcohol to excess” (Orwell 113). In chapter 8 of the novel, the animals have to keep doing more and more work since there is barely any food. Most of the food went to the pigs since they “needed it” according to Squealer. The other animals were sometimes not even fed since there was barely any food.

They originally change five Commandments, after breaking a Commandment and the rest of the animals come to notice and rumors start to spread Squealer gets ready to explain his statement. Squealer as always with his talent of being a “brilliant talker” (Orwell, George pg,16) twist his words and manipulates the Commandments to better the lives of the pigs and the dogs. The curiosity and the idea of the pigs being smart because they are the only ones other than Benjamin the donkey who can read perfectly leads to having special privileges for being somewhat more intelligent than the

With Squealer final act in changing all the commandments to “All animal are equal but some are more equal than others.” Once again, the pigs used their power to change and because of that “it did not seem strange when [the] next day the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters.” The animals were convinced that the pigs were in their best interest to make decisions. The dogs in many cases, were used to control the animals by fear, such as when “The four pigs waited, trembling, with guilt written in every line of their countenances… [then] confessed that they had been secretly in touch with Snowball.” The pigs confessed because they were frightened of the dogs.

These Seven Commandments were supposed to be followed in order to maintain stability on Animal Farm, but Napoleon and Squealer take advantage of the other animals’ poor memory and unintelligence in order to trick them into believing that the pigs weren’t breaking any of the rules. For example, one of the commandments that the pigs broke was “No animal shall sleep in a bed” (Orwell 21). The pigs justified their sleeping in the beds by stating to the animals “You [the animals] did not suppose, surely that there was ever a ruling against beds? … The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention.” (Orwell 58)

As the pigs begin to push the limits of their power, the other animals’ suspicion began to increase about their questionable actions. In an attempt to cover up their wrongdoings, the pigs secretly revised the Seven Commandments so that their actions were allowed under the rules of the farm. For example, two words were added to the Sixth Commandment after the executions of the supposed traitors, “Muriel read the Commandments for her. It ran: ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.’ Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals’ memory.

Of course, subsequently breaking a rule, there would be more words added to the commandment to make it seem as if they had nothing wrong. These pigs are scheming little devils, making me want to just go into the book and turn them into bacon. Following this further, the porkers always had a smart little remark telling how they resided within the rules. Every time they did this it made me so mad that I wanted to throw my book at the wall. I cannot comprehend how the other animals do not realize that they were being

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