Seven Commandment In Animal Farm, By George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell is a novel where anyone can read and interpret the meaning based on their own knowledge. Even though the novel initially created to criticize the Russian Revolution, the way this story was written is general where people can read it regardless their age. If 10 years-old read this novel, they may only find this story is a sad tragic animal story, while if an adult read it, even without the knowledge of the history behind it, they may realize this story has much more meaning to it. So, in my opinion, the message of Animal Farm will come across effectively to someone who knows nothing about Soviet history or the conflict between Stalin and Trotsky. I am going to discuss three themes that Orwell highlighted in this

The Seven Commandments may be said to be the key to an understanding of Animal Farm.

Without law and order, it is nearly proven that civilization will fail. Because of this, Snowball saw it necessary to create a set of rules for the animals on the newly evolving farm, so came about the 7 Commandments. Unfortunately, but undoubtedly in the pigs’ advantage, most of the other animals did not know how to read or write. Because of this the other members of the farm had to bestow their trust and goodwill in the more educated of the animals. Little did they know that their innocence and their devotion to the farm as a whole would in the end lead to their demise. “The birds did not understand Snowball’s long words, but they accepted his explanation, and all the humbler animals set to work to

Some of the readers might think that it’s easy and some might think it’s hard. We all know that Napoleon finds tricking animals easy. When he wants something all he has to do is change up the rule a little. “No animal shall sleep in a bed” (Orwell, 15) This is how it should be. It is one of the original commandments. “No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.” (Orwell, 42) Napoleon did not inform anyone but the other pigs that they were now allowed to sleep in beds. He wanted it so he got it but he had to trick the other animals to get it. When all of the other animals saw a change in the seven commandments they were very confused to why it looked different but since they can’t read they didn’t totally understand what changed. The animals all know that Frederick the neighbour farm owner is a jerk. Since no one of the other animals are literate, Napoleon made the decision to sell the timber to Mr. Fredrick. Frederick decided to trick the animals at animal farm with fake paper notes. “Fredrick had wanted to pay for the timber with a cheque, which, it seemed, was a piece of paper with a promise to pay written upon it. But Napoleon was too clever for him.” (Orwell, 61 - 62) In this quotation you see that Frederick used his knowledge of numbers. Napoleon didn’t know that he was given fake bills. He should have listened to all of the other animals when they said that he was not the best choice. When the pigs all lied to the rest of the animals it was so bad and cruel. Boxer was getting older and he collapsed. The pigs told everyone that he was being sent to a doctor but in fact he was getting sent to an animal slaughter place. “‘Quick, quick’ he shouted ‘Come at once!’ ‘They’re taking Boxer away.’” (Orwell, 75) At first, all of the animals thought that Boxer was going somewhere safe. He actually got sent to a horse slaughtering place. Hopefully there will be better leaders in the future especially when it comes to the lives

In George Orwell’s 1945 novel, Animal Farm, Orwell uses animals, who feel like they’re being treated unequally, to act as an allegory of the people who were apart of the Russian Revolution and endured the tough times under Stalin’s, who is represented as Napoleon in the novel, control. Orwell symbolism of the 7 commandments basically define what the animals feel is Animalism which relates to how the Russian society were all apart of communism.

George Sheehan, a physician, senior athlete and author best known for his writings about the sport of running once said, “Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.” But, what changes a person’s (a leader) values changes the entire societies behavior. Animal Farm by George Orwell, is an allegory of the Russian revolution and how it went wrong because of its values. A successful society cannot run without the three-essential of values equity, determination, and self-reliance.

Napoleon exploit's the animals inferiority complex. When he changes the seven commandments to justify his actions, the animals are doubtful as their memories tell them that the seven commandments were different. However Squealer tells them that they are wrong and it is just a figment of their imagination. The animals think that if napoleon says so then he must be right and so let him get away with it.

Corrupted by Power “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”. This quote relates to George Orwell’s allegorical novella, Animal Farm, because throughout the novella, Napoleon, one of the pigs, uses his advantage of intelligence as a way to manipulate the other animals into believing everything he told them. Although Napoleon changes quite a number of things on the farm, the changes are incremental and small so that he makes it appear that there was no changes at all. As Napoleon's power increases, he is not yet satisfied with the amount of power he is able to obtain yet.

For example, within the first few pages of the novel, Mr. Jones is oppressing the animals, then Napoleon and his pigs were oppressing the animals throughout the rest of the book after the revolt. Napoleon and his pigs take advantage of the animals while they are at a precious stage of their lives. The animals had overruled the humans and major adjustments had to be made for the assurance of their survival. Napoleon makes the Seven Commandments that is mandatory for the animals to follow. The purpose of the commandments were to keep the farm orderly and help the animals reach their desire for freedom.

The seven commandments was very provisional, they were changing as events that deal with breaking a commandment that had taken place on the farm. In particular, “all animals are equal” (Orwell 9) was changed drastically to “all animals are equal but some more equal than others” (Orwell 51) when the pigs started to walk on two legs, carrying a whip in their trotters supervising the other animals as they slaved hard labor. And when noticed that the pigs violated another law by walking on two legs, after they enforced that all animals were to walk on four legs. The famous quote that the sheep would “four legs good, two legs bad” changed to “four legs good, two legs better” (Orwell 51). Contradicting to how Communism laws also changed when an

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

This rule is changed by the organization creating the rules; the pigs. The change came from no other place than the pure selfishness and complete hypocrisy. Another example of a an changed commandment is “No animal shall kill any other animal”(25). In chapter 7, Napoleon has taken sole political control of the newly named Animal Farm, and frightens some animals to confessing horrible crimes of treason. “Napoleon now called upon them to confess their crimes...

On page 68, Napoleon then see`s he has an advantage manipulate the animals it was snowballs doing of destroying the windmill. Napoleon`s “guard dogs” (secret police) then attack snowball in the morning and try to kill him. Spontaneously Snowball escapes. Napoleon had just broken the 6th commandment: “No animal shall kill any other animal” to “No ani mal shall any animal without cause.” That were supposedly “unchangeable”.

I’m here to inform you that I have successfully came up with a plan of propaganda for students to follow our rules at PCTI. It’s well known that propaganda is used to strengthen a person’s point of view by the spread of information. I’m familiar with the different techniques there are for I have been reading Animal Farm by George Orwell. The pigs in the novel constantly use different types of propaganda to get their way. Using this communication, there are three different techniques that I will use for three rules/policies. The propaganda technique, transfer, can be used for wearing school IDs. Transfer associate's something positive

There are times in life when people are taken advantage of and used for someone else’s benefit or satisfaction, and they don’t even know what is happening or how they’re being affected. They let their ignorance make themselves a target for other people, and the outcome usually isn’t a positive one. They’re left with no voice, and even worse, a spirit of fear and of discouragement. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the pigs have become the leaders and have made a list of rules to live by, however, over time the animals notice that the pigs have modified the rules and made excuses to justify their actions. They also notice that they are not being treated equally with the pigs because the pigs know that they are smarter than the rest of the animals. This is why they manipulate and oppress them. The animals’ behavior supports the idea that people’s ignorance can contribute to their political and social oppression by not being able to read, allowing the pigs to lead and claim the best things, and being publicly punished for their crimes.