Commandment In George Orwell's Animal Farm

From ruthless pigs to cool, level headed ravens, Animal Farm is a place that many are able to call home. Seven commandments guide all the animals who live there through their choices and their lives. The commandments were put into place to create a utopia; However, this didn’t work out. The pigs end up taking advantage of the animals’ inability to read and their general lack of intelligence and take over animal farm. This leads to the recreation of the monarchy that the animals had been trying to free themselves of since the beginning of the rebellion. The beginning of Animal Farm starts out with a speech concerning the tyranny of man by Old Major. Old major describes what the animals need to do, saying “On;y get rid of man, and the produce of our labors would be our own. Almost overnight we could become rich and free”(7). Following Old Major’s death, the animals on Animal farm rebel. After

Slowly, the pigs change the commandments in order to allow themselves comfort and power. They are able to do this by changing them only a small amount. For example, the pigs change the commandment about sleeping in beds to say, “No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”(61). Clover had some suspicions as to whether or not this is what the fourth commandment stated in the beginning. Snowball quickly crushed her suspicions by saying, “You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds?” … “The ruling was against sheets, which are a human invention”(62). Snowball then finishes, “Surely none of you wishes to see jones back”(62). Snowball takes advantage of the fact that the majority of the animals have sub-par memory and that most of them can’t even read. The pigs use these same tactics to change two more commandments throughout the book. And then, finally, there is only one commandment which reads, “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN