George Orwel's Animal Farm
George Orwell’s book, Animal Farm, is a great book. However, the characters that the pigs portray are cunning, sneaky, and sly. The seven commandments, which are the foundation of their society, (p.21) will all be broken in time. The three most important, to me, are the commandments stating, no animal shall kill any other animal, no animal shall sleep in a bed, and all animals are equal. No animal shall kill any other animal. This was commandment number six. No one ever imagined it would be broken, let alone by their leader, but it happened. Napoleon, in an attempt to maintain total control of the farm, killed four pigs, which he forced to confess to a heinous crime of treason, which was punished by death (p.75). No animals objected to this breach of commandments. The next time the animals should look at the seven commandments on the wall,
they would see commandment number six as, No animal shall kill any other animal without cause. In conclusion, I would like to state that the way George Orwell portrays the pigs to be sneaky, power-hungry, and manipulative gives those characters great depth and an aristocratic air. He also portrays the working animals quite well into the role of peasants and factory workers because, as in the USSR under Stalin, they are uneducated and brainwashed. However, this also points out that dictators have absolute power over their own rules and keep it like that by keeping low education in their state. All animals are equal, reads commandment number seven. This is one of the last commandments to be broken (p. 118), but it is the most influential. The first step in this was to take the pigs away and teach them to chant “Four legs good, two legs
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