7 Commandments In Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a book about farm animals who no longer wish to serve as “slaves” to the humans, and have accepted the fact that they must start a revolution in order to successfully become free animals, away from all human contact and human ways of living. However, as expected there is always one person that craves the power, superiority and ambition. Throughout the short novel, I was shocked how relative these political allegories were to both our past and present lives. Three chapters stood out to me the most, one being chapter 2 which revolved around introducing the seven commandments, chapter 6, which sees the first revision of a commandment behind everyone’s back, and chapter 10 which ends with the animals no longer telling the difference

For example, our 26th amendment which focused on the legal age limit for voting, was ratified and lowered from 21 to 18 years old. In addition, we also had the 18th amendment which was a nationwide ban on selling, manufacturing, and transporting alcohol. However, this was later changed when issues arose in regards to alcohol, and thus was the creation of the 21st amendment, which basically repealed everything that the 18th amendment stated. Last but not least, one more example I found relevant was just how some amendments such as the 2nd amendment have “fine print”. The 2nd amendment states that, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”. However, we have “fine print” that states that they shall not be infringed, except when the government fears you will use those arms against them. Which I found relative to how the pigs in Animal Farm, added more context to the commandments for self-benefit. During the story, we saw a shift of government types and the animals wanting to become a socialist society, and no longer under a “dictatorship” under Mr. Jones, the

In this spectrum on the far left we have communism, then little by little working our way towards the center we have socialism, followed by democrat, and then we have moderate in the middle, and conservative on the right, and anarchy on the extreme right. In the story, the farm animals are under a “dictatorship” with Mr. Jones, their human owner. Then as they start to get feedback from other animals, they have a vision of becoming a socialist society, which sparks the revolution. A socialist society is a political and economic theory, in which a community as a whole should own and regulate means of production, distribution, and exchange. However, they end up in a worst dictatorship because the pigs love the idea of capitalizing off the rest of the