Animal Farm By George Orwell

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One of the numerous themes apparent in “Animal Farm” was rules and order. First of all, the animals decide, after the pigs learn to read and write, out with the old rules and in with new ones. They (Napoleon and Snowball) first start by changing the front gate from MANOR FARM to ANIMAL FARM (Orwell, 1946, p. 32). This is also supported in chapter 2, when the animals reduce the principles of animalism to the seven commandments which could be read from thirty yards away (Orwell, 1946, p. 33).
However, these rules soon become not as much as rules, but easily changed suggestions. This is obvious because most of the animals cannot read very well, nor do they remember. Chapter 6 maintains this theory when Clover fetched Muriel to read the