Snowball's 7 Commandments In Animal Farm

One of the techniques used by Napoleon is, brainwashing the animals. The 7 commandments were expected to be followed by the animals including, Napoleon. Whenever Napoleon broke the rules, instead of feeling guilty, he had Squealer change the commandment to suit his wrongdoings. "Some of the animals remembered - or thought they

At first, Animal Farm prospers and all the animals have the ideal life. But as time goes on, the pigs decide they will make all the decisions for the other animals. Slowly, the pigs become more superior than the other animals and as time passes, many disincentives for the other animals come along the way. As it states in the text, “The mystery of where the milk went to was soon cleared up. It was mixed every day into the pigs’ mash… The animals had assumed that these would be shared out equally; one day, however, the order went forth that all the windfalls were to be collected and brought to the harness-room for the use of the pigs… Some of the other animals murmured, but it was no use,” (Orwell, 30). This adage shows how the animals are not doing much to stop the pigs from being unfair and therefore their journey will only get harder as the pigs start to take full control of the farm. Another quotation from the novel states, “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,” (Orwell, 155). In the book, the pigs, who primarily were trying to get rid of man’s teaching, started befriending man, and then ultimately became man. Therefore, the way the pigs dealt with their obstacle, the

Eventually leading to the downfall of the “animalism” doctrines. This is accurately shown through the passage “Clover had not remembered that the Fourth Commandment mentioned sheets; but as it was there on the wall, it must have done so … You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed properly regarded” (Orwell 45-46). At this time Clover is at the side of the barn only a few months after snowball has been banished. She wonders how she could have forgotten remembering “without sheets” on the fourth commandment. At this time Squealer comes along and settles any confusion or suspicion. The pigs sleeping in beds, breaks the fourth commandment. If the animals discover that the pigs have really broken this crucial rule, then the pigs will lose the privileges of being the leaders of animal farm. Such as, the larger portions of food and the ability to live in the farmhouse. Through the greed of wanting to live in the farm house, the pigs are motivated to “adjust” the fourth commandment to fit their needs. This adjustment demonstrates the cause of the animals self-deception. The passage also shows how Squealer uses his infamous propaganda theories when explaining that there is nothing wrong with sleeping in a bed. He uses logos (logical reasoning) which clears the animals doubt. Squealer is also motivated through greed of sleeping in the beds. The result of constantly changing the commandments is shown through the quotation at the end of the book “Four legs good, two legs better” (Orwell 89)! The pigs are walking on their hind legs and the sheep began to bleat this line repeatedly. The result is that the pigs mirror the humans in every way, crushing the laws of animalism. This can be noticed when the sheep say “two

While the the men and pigs were playing ace of spades the animals chatted. Clover noticed and found it strange that she remembered four of the seven animal commandments wrong. It would have been understandable and acceptable if she had only remembered one or two commandments wrong but four was a little weird. Still she did not think anything of it. After that day the animal just continued on with their regular lives working away like slaves while Napoleon told them what to do and drank his whiskey.

Animal Farm, by George Orwell was published in 1945, a crucial time in history because of Stalin’s takeover of the Soviet Union and his exploitation of the centralized communist government. This was in direct contradiction to the expected results of the Russian Revolution. Orwell felt that revolutions fail because the end result is a change of tyrants and not of government. Orwell exemplifies this failure through the goals of the revolution and their failure to meet them, the malfunction of Napoleon and Snowball’s rule together, and Napoleon’s disastrous reign.

53-56, The author mentions how the differences in socioeconomic classes divide people. One example of this is when the animals work and the pigs watch over the animals doing labor. This is significant because using our knowledge of Marxism, the animals that are doing the labor are the 99% that work for the 1% whom of which are the pigs. Furthermore, in Animal Farm, because of the pig’s ability to teach themselves, and create Animalism, the animals agree with the ideology of Animalism, which in turn made the animals believe that the pigs were the right choice for

For the pigs to maintain their popularity with the other animals, Squealer secretly paints additions to some commandments to benefit the pigs while keeping them free of accusations of breaking the laws (such as "No animal shall drink alcohol" having "to excess" added to it and "No animal shall sleep in a bed" with "with sheets" added to it). Eventually the laws are replaced with "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others", and "Four legs good, two legs

Recently at the Animal Farm by George Orwell world, a body recently was discovered just outside of the border of Animal Farm. The deceased was identified as being the pig Snowball- despite animals on Animal Farm’s protest that he is alive in addition to being in good health. The animals all claim that no one on Animal Farm harmed snowball in obedience to the Sixth Commandment “No animal shall kill any other animal”. Nevertheless, Snowball seemed to have accumulated several injuries before his death, all that appears to have been inflicted by several large dogs, Napoleon's dogs.

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

To fully take control over Animal Farm, the government spread the message that the farm could not prosper or function without the pigs. This message allowed the pigs to gain many privileges in the farm without question. From the very beginning of the story, the other animals regarded the pigs as the smartest of all the animals in the farm. Because of this, it was naturally assumed that the pigs should lead the farm into rebellion against the humans and guide the animals into a better life. However, the pigs gained more control than the other animals thought they would. The pigs, especially Squealer, convinced the other animals that they should be allowed special privileges because they were shouldering the most “burdens” of all the

A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention.” When Squealer is convincing the animals that the changing of the commandment is acceptable, the animals are unable to oppose him because Squealer has the dogs Napoleon has trained by his

They said it was mandatory to move into the farmhouse. When they all agreed that no one should be living in the farm house. They needed a quiet place to work since they were categorized as “intelligent”. The animals weren’t too happy to find out that the pigs were living there. They also decided to sleep in the beds when they agreed that no animal shall sleep in a bed. In the book it says “It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there...It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. It was also more suited to the dignity of the Leader (for of late he had taken to speaking of Napoleon under the title of "Leader") to live in a house than in a mere sty. Nevertheless, some of the animals were disturbed when they heard that the pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing-room as a recreation room, but also slept in the beds.” ( Ch.6, Animal Farm). But since the pigs were the leaders of the farm there wasn’t much they could

Squealer and Napoleon are known throughout the story to change the original seven commandments, that they implemented after the rebellion, to fit their own agenda. For example, when Napoleon first took power he did not let Mollie wear her ribbons which lead to her leaving the farm, but the pigs change this rule, “and also that all pigs, of whatever degree, were to have the privilege of wearing green ribbons on their tails on Sundays (114).” This shows the rewriting of laws, because they said before that you cannot wear ribbons, however when a pig wants to wear a ribbon it is acceptable. Another time when the pigs change rules to get their way is when the pigs go to the seven commandments and add to the fourth one. The original law is that no animal can sleep in a bed, nevertheless when then the pigs are sleeping in beds they add the word “with sheets” so they can get away with it.

By not following and changing the seven commandments the pigs abuse their power. One way the pigs change the commandments is by allowing themselves to sleep in the beds of the farmhouse, while everyone else sleeps in the barn. Clover gets Muriel to read her the fourth commandments,” no animal shall sleep

The pigs acted as leaders and the other animals were followers. In our society today, the upper class are leaders and we follow what they have set out for us. Even our internet usage can be accessed by the government. The pigs controlled everything that happened on animal farm and the ignorant animals did not oppose. The pigs controlled the change of the commandments as well. The seven commandments were changed to merely one that stated “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”. The pigs are the only ones able to read or write, which gives them power. Ignoring classism leads to even higher levels of oppression. The lower and middle class are treated differently because of their class. The power is in the minority upper class. There other animals outnumbered the pigs but the pigs had all the power. Our society works similarly. The middle class outnumbers the higher class but because of ignorance, nobody speaks up about the oppression we all