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How Does Napoleon Manipulate The 7 Commandments In Animal Farm

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Some people will do anything to stay in power. Once they have the power they want they become corrupt, selfish and manipulative because the feeling of having power is just never enough. They always want more. The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory about the former corrupt government in the Soviet Union. The main characters Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball are all pigs and they represent real people who had a place in the Soviet Union’s corrupt government. Napoleon represents Joseph Stalin, Snowball represents Leon Trotsky, and Squealer represents the propaganda department Stalin had to support his image. Napoleon is able to keep his power by using scare tactics, manipulating the seven commandments, and by lying to the animals. …show more content…

In chapter 10, we learn from the narrator, “For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. 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 quote proves Napoleon manipulates the seven commandments to stay in power because in chapter 2 of Animal Farm we learn the seven commandments; in chapter 1 Old Major says, “No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All the habits of Man are evil.” Throughout Animal Farm Napoleon and the other pigs break every single one of the seven commandments but since almost every animal could not read, they are tricked into thinking they did not hear the commandments correctly. “No animal shall drink alcohol.” turned into “No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.” some of the other commandments changed too. By the end of Animal Farm the animals realized the commandments have changed because the wall looks different although they still can not read what is on it. Benjamin reads the single commandment left on the wall and all of the animals realize it isn’t so strange what the pigs are doing now. Napoleon manipulating the seven commandments helps him out a lot in staying in

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