Commandment In George Orwell's Animal Farm

In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, animals overthrow their cruel master and create their own government which the pigs dominate. The foremost leaders are the pigs, Snowball, who is quick speaking intelligent, and Napoleon, who is brutish and clever. Their hunger for power shapes the rules and mindsets of the animals. In the beginning, the Seven Commandments of Animalism created by the pigs, stresses the animals’ hatred of mankind and how they will never imitate or act like man. These ideals are soon corrupted and Animal Farm’s original values are soon abandoned.

Towards the beginning of the book, the animals make a list of rules which they call the Seven Commandments. Throughout the story, Napoleon adds on to the commandments, such as changing the last rule from “All animals are equal” to saying, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” The animals accept the changes and just think that they remembered the commandments wrong..blaming it all on their ‘faulty memory’. This happens again and again, and Napoleon continues to take advantage of his power. He realizes that he is much more smart and clever than any of the other animals on the farm, and changes things to be in his favor. He cuts down on the serving sizes of each animal’s food portions and makes them work even more than they worked with their previous human leader. The animals so obliviously followed Napoleon even though what he was doing was incorrect, but because they had trust and respect for him, they never thought that he was in the

In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals in a farm start a revolution against Jones, the farm owner, since they felt that they have a lack of freedom. When the animals take over the farm, they began to create their own society with the seven commandments and Napoleon and Snowball as their leaders. However, Snowball was kicked out of Animal Farm by Napoleon and Animal Farm ran into some problem like when the windmill broke for the 2nd time. As a result, many animals on the farm died. This shows that power can easily be corrupted, because of the selfishness of Napoleon, the benefits the pigs have over all the other animals, and the amount of rights given to the other animals by 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.

One of the wisest animal on the farm, who is now deceased, Old Major, left a list of commandments which were supposed to be followed by all comrades, two of those were; “all animals are equal” (Orwell 15) and “never tyrannize your own kind”(Orwell 15). Shortly after Major passed, there was an argument on who were to take leadership of the farm. Napoleon, whom is one of the pigs, chased his opponent Snowball away and took matters into his hands. As time passed, the rest of the animals gained trust in him, and even made a song about him. Some animals knew how to read but not all, so Napoleon kept changing commandments into his own words, he changed one of them from “all animals are equal” to “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” (Orwell 85), by that he meant, the pigs are superior than the rest.

The corrupting effect of power is one of the focal topic of George Orwell’s allegorical novel, ‘Animal Farm’. When too much power is given, a dictatorship government can shape, in which all choices are made by one authority, which Orwell depicts through Napoleon. George Orwell portrays how authority can without a doubt corrupt organised societies. In the novel Old Major, who is a valued animal on the farm, had given a speech to push the animals towards a rebellion.

In the novel, Animal Farm, written by George Orwell the main character Napoleon is willing to give up his friends, his kind, and his morals for the power he can achieve by manipulating his comrades. To demonstrate, George Orwell wrote, “In April, Animal Farm was proclaimed a republic, and it became necessary to elect a president. There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously” (page 116). This quote reveals Napoleon’s deviousness and how he has controlled the pigs and other animals to make it seem like he is a great leader and had their best interest in mind. At the beginning of the novel, Napoleon was willing to rule the farm with the other pigs, but once he got a glimpse of what life was like with total power he could not resist himself from wanting ultimate control. This desire ultimately led to his

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Napoleon portrayed himself as if he was just like all of the other animals, making them all seem equal. Eventually Napoleon became more less of an animal, and more of HUMAN. In George Orwell’s classic novella Animal Farm, Old Major’s vision of a farm for all animals was oh so quickly changed into an autocratic dictatorship.

In George Orwell’s allegorical novel Animal Farm, animals are used to represent The Russian Revolution. Some animals have more power than others, but overall the majority of them believe they are equal. One of the main characters, Napoleon, became a dictator, and has not been a faithful ruler. Throughout this story Napoleon has been very ignorant and only thought of what would make him have more power. With Napoleon being the ruler he has become a violent, manipulative, and corrupt pig.

The 7 commandments made by the pigs symbolizes the power and manipulation the pigs have over the other animals. The use of the commandments represent how words can manipulate others and lead to an abuse of power. For example, at the end of chapter 3 Squealer manages to convince the rest of the animals that the pigs needed the apples and milk they had taken to preserve health. In addition, Squealer tells the animals that the pigs don’t even like their food and only eat for the good of the farm. Then, he uses Jones’ return to justify their extra meals and says “Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," This ended the argument and convinced the animals that the pigs needed to eat the main crop of apples. This breaks the farm’s commandment concerning animal equality however, the pigs trick the animals into believing everything is right through fear mongering.

Napoleon does not stop there, however, he further intimidates the farm animals in a cruel and brutal way. Orwell writes of Napoleon’s slaughter of many animals that even considered disobeying his rules, Chapter 7 describes, “And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones” (84). Napoleon, Animal Farm’s main commander for the majority of the book, shows no mercy to any animal that defies him. The leaders’ mercilessness, particularly that of Napoleon, causes the loss of freedom by using fear to force the animals to comply to their instructions or face harsh punishment and loss of equality by ensuring they hold the most power.

The classic, Animal Farm is a sarcastic novel about the Russian Revolution where important roles are played by animals. The animals in this novel were neglected by their owner and his men; they were not treated right and were not taken care of properly. This led the animals to rebel and throw out all the humans on the farm so that they can have the property to themselves. Napoleon, the new leader of the farm, only cared about controlling the whole farm which led him to forget the terrible past. “Napoleon himself, magically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side… carried a whip in his trotter” (Orwell 133). Napoleon’s acts were starting to become more and more like those of Jones- walking on two legs, and possessing the whip that

Within animalism lies the seven commandments which are the rules that every animal must follow. As the novel continues, Napoleon takes advantage of these commandments and begins to slowly turn animalism into communism. While closely analyzing the theme of the story, a connection can be built between animalism and communism because, communism is based around the idea that everybody is equal with no class distinctions and the means of production is owned by the people themselves. Linking it to animalism, all of the animals are equal and everybody shares the wealth of the farm. When Napoleon starts to become a tyrant, he starts to change the seven commandments and betrays the principles of animalism allowing the pigs to do things that would otherwise not be granted, just like Czar Nicholas betrayed all of his people. Considering animalism is the governing principles of the farm, all of the animals must follow these rules, even if one of them has mysteriously changed. This is where Napoleon begins to slowly create his communist rule. [Include

It is said that one bad apple ruins the bunch. This quote shows that just one bad person in a group, can pull the whole thing down. Freedom from being human’s slaves was desired by all of Animal Farm. One ruthless ruler ruined the hope for freedom that the farm once had. Napoleon was a pig who changed the commandments, made animals then work for him as slaves, and would live in a house with beds and furnishings, while others were stuck in the barn. Squealer was his right hand man that made sure that everyone followed their ruler, Napoleon.

The animal farm’s political system and government first stood on dictatorship grounds by the one and only dictator Mr. Jones. The animals were left treated with the poorest of care, until they carried out a rebellion against Mr. Jones and all the humans at the farm that altered their government system. “The Rebellion had been successfully carried through; Jones was expelled and the Manor Farm was theirs” (Animal Farm, 14) where they followed the new system, a Democratic system with their new leaders Snowball and Napoleon that obeyed “the principles of Animalism to seven commandments.” (Animal Farm, 14). Up until this point, the animal farm is focusing on their newly built society to reach sustainable development by stabilizing their government and applying rules and order. These unalterable commandments of the principle of Animalism that all animals should have followed, later on were amended to counterpart the animals action or in particularly the pigs that had the most power. One of those amendments incorporate with when the forth amendment was known to recall as “No animal shall sleep in beds” and now is known as “No animal shall sleep in beds with sheets” after the pigs have moved into the farm house because “there was never a ruling against beds” (Animal Farm,