Breaking The Commandments Of Animal Farm By George Orwell

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is, first and foremost, a political satire warning against the pursuit of utopian desires through unjust and oppressive means. Operating under the pretense of an animal fable, Orwell disparages the use of political power to poach personal freedom. He effectively alerts his readers to the dangerous price that can accompany the so-called “pursuit of progress”. And he illuminates how governments acting under the guise of increasing independence often do just the opposite: increase oppression and sacrifice sovereignty. While the cautionary theme Orwell provides proves widely applicable, in reality his novel focuses on one tale of totalitarian abuse: Soviet Russia. The parallels between the society Orwell presents in his Animal Farm and the Soviet Union – from the Russian revolution to Stalin’s supremacy – are seemingly endless. Manor Farm represents Tsarist Russia, Animalism compares to Stalinism, and Animal Farm, with the pig Napoleon at its helm, clearly symbolizes Communist Russia and Joseph Stalin. But Orwell does more than simply align fiction with fact. He fundamentally attacks Soviet Russia at its core. And in so doing he reveals how the Communist Party simply replaced a bad system with a worse one, overthrowing an imperial autocracy for a totalitarian dictatorship. This essay will demonstrate that Orwell’s Animal Farm is

Elie Wiesel in Night and Snowball from Animal Farm are very similar characters because they were victimized by tyrants and used as scapegoats, but they are also unique and individual characters because Elie knew he was being taken advantage of and Snowball did not. Animal Farm is written by George Orwell, and it is about a farm of animals that take over the farm. Napoleon, a large pig, slowly takes away food and supplies from the other animals until he starts walking on two feet and becomes a “human.” Because of him Snowball is expelled from the farm and acts as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong on the farm. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel, and in it Elie tells the story of he was taken from his home and put into a concentration camp under the control of Adolf Hitler.

"There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS" (Orwell, p. 134.)

People respond to control and power differently for various reasons, however, one of the main reasons is based on their personality; their confidence and intelligence. In, Animal Farm by George Orwell, confidence and intelligence is a big factor for why certain animals obtained power and control and why other ones did not. People with confidence and intelligence are likely to gain most of the control and power. People with little intelligence, but lots of confidence are more likely to have some power or work underneath the leader. People with intelligence, but no confidence seem to have no power at all and shy away from it. Both intelligence and confidence are needed for someone to take total power. Therefore, the amount of confidence and intelligence a person has will decide how they respond to control and power.

Over time on Animal Farm, the 7 commandments that were made based on Old Major’s idea of animalism changed along with the rise of the pig’s power. In the beginning, the commandments were made to set clear rules for the farm and make sure that the animals were treated equally, unlike when Mr. Jones was in charge. As the story continues, the pigs begin to give themselves a more prominent role on the farm. They qualify themselves as the smartest animals and therefore, the ones who should be in control. The pigs take advantage of the lack of intelligence in the other animals and they manipulate them to go alone with all of their changes to the commandments. This evolves the farm from a liberated place where all animals felt equal, safe and appreciated,

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.

The key to ideality, is, in my opinion, obedience. If the people of Animal Farm are obedient to their superior pig leaders, then we will be successful in creating the utopia we strived for since Old Major’s death. “But why would this work,” you may ask, and I will tell you. This plan shall work because we pigs are the thinkers. We are intellectually superior to our other comrades. This isn’t a boast, we are simply stating facts, and besides, we still need their strength. But because of that very fact that I have explained to you, there is one thing that comes out of this. I, Napoleon, the great leader of Animal Farm, is always right because of this.

At the beginning of the novel, the first commandment started by saying that anything that walked on two legs is automatically identified as an enemy, but it slowly changed where the pigs would walk on their hind legs are were expected to be treated as superior. “It was a pig walking on his hind legs” (Orwell 121). The pigs, who were the ones who created the seven commandments in the first place, changed the commandments to represent the theme of superiority by doing something they knew no one else on the farm would know other than themselves. Before the pigs completely changed the first commandment to represent their superiority, you could see Orwell develop the pigs slowly becoming more superior, first starting with setting the pigs up as the power on the farm. “It had come to be accepted that the pigs…should decide all questions of farm policy” (Orwell 53). While representing the

In the book Animal Farm, Napoleon, the ruler of the farm broke many commandments, killed animals and made deals with humans, the animal system that was set up was a dictatorship. If the farm was a democracy, it would have a system of checks and balances in place, and the societal and political breakdown could have been prevented.

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves,” - Abraham Lincoln. Freedom is a right that everyone strives for but never truly get. In the George Orwell classic Animal Farm, the animals start a rebellion to overthrow their farmer, Mr. Jones. However, the outcome of the revolt was far from the paradise they were expecting. The oblivious animals are being used as slaves in disguise for the “freedom” they wanted.

Taken from the seven commandments only two commandments seemed to stand out, these commandments are “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy” and “No animal shall drink alcohol”. These rules were created to give the animals a reminder of why they are rebelling and allow them to understand and learn them by heart (Orwell 43).The first commandment is a statement of how they view humans. All of the animals agreed with this rule because the owner, Mr.Jones didn’t properly take care of them and they felt like they were being used for their owner’s own benefit. The animals on the farm have indicated that man is the only real enemy that they have and if they remove man from the farm then excessive work and starvation will not be existent (Orwell 29).In

THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS OF ANIMAL FARM. The seven commandments are the basic principles of Animalism worked out by the pigs and described as the originally “unchangeable laws” by which the animals were to obey and follow the rules and were to never to be broken. The seven commandments were written on the wall of where the barn was, by which where the animals day by day read were: Page: 43: 1.

In the book Animal Farm written by George Orwell, the pigs clearly take advantage of the other animals using language, names, and words. The pigs easily do this by using the seven commandments, using the power of knowledge, and by saying the right words at the right time.

Similar to Animal Farm, the society has commandments in which people are expected to abide. These are the seven rules that the members of society should follow: everyone should be treated equally, everyone has to vote, drinking alcohol is not allowed, smoking is banned, respect elders, keep phones away during a conversation, and do not kill anyone. All of these commandments are expected to be followed, however some of them are to be followed to an extent. The seven commandments are the key to bettering the society.

“There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS”, from Animal Farm, by George Orwell on page 134. This quote was a paradox, as something cannot be MORE equal than something else. Squealer had erased all the commandments, and replaced them with only one commandment that basically said that not all animals were equal, and there were now different classes of animals. The pigs did this so that nobody could say that they were doing anything against the rules.