... learn to read and write very quickly. They write commandments for all animals to follow and for the good of all animals. The commandments are: 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3. No animal shall wear clothes. 4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. 5. No animal shall drink alcohol. 6. No animal shall kill any ... conflict between Snowball and Napoleon builds up when Snowball proposes that a windmill be built. Napoleon gets agitated with Snowball and sics the dogs on him. Snowball just barely escapes and goes into hiding. ...

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... , which you needed a ladder to get up there. Eventually everyone forgot about the puppies. They also wrote on a wall were the Seven Commandments, which are 1) Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2) Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3) No animal shall wear clothes. 4) No animal shall sleep in bed. 5) No animal shall drink alcohol. 6) No animal shall kill any ... ...

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... equal- (p.g.15), and form committees to help the other animals. The animals learn to read according to their limited abilities. The sheep learn the essential principles of Animalism: "Four legs good, two legs bad."" (p.g.43). All the other animals, on the farm, are kept ignorant. The pigs try to teach the others, but some animals do not learn it fast enough. The ... final tool used in Napoleon's rise to power. Napoleon makes Snowball the "scapegoat- for all the problems on Animal Farm. A scapegoat is a person or group that is balanced for whatever goes wrong in a society. Finding a scap...

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... due to his alcohol addiction). He really doesn't seem to care about his animals, and continually continues to abuse them. He thinks it's the end of the world whenever something goes wrong. Napoleon is the bad pig of the story. He was a rather large Buckshire boar .He wasn't much of a talker, but had a reputation for getting his way. He is very ... of his looks and with his nine snarling dogs. He soon started to take whole farm over. Then they named it animal farm. They believed in the saying, "Four legs good, two legs bad". Before long the animals soon realized that the pigs weren't any...

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... they benefit him. He takes control of the situation by threat if needed with several dogs baring their teeth. Even the ignorant sheep were manipulated into the maxim "Four legs good, two legs bad!". They often silenced the other more troubled animals before any argument arose. It seemed that Napoleon ruled the farm from the beginning. Multiple times through the course of ... to the pig's desires. It is chiefly through these verbal tricks that the real power comes from, but control is sped up with violence shown by Napoleon's agents. Which just goes to show that perhaps the pen is mighti...

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... two fields from the neighboring, Pilkington. Life is harsh for all the animals (besides the pigs). Eventually, the pigs take on many qualities from humans and start walking on hind legs. The Seven Commandments is shortened down to one law: "All Animals Are Equal But Some Are More Equal Than Others."(Orwell, 95). The book ends with the pigs sharing drinks ... was enormous."(Orwell, 80). He uses the euphemism "readjustment of rations" to disguise the truth that they are getting less to eat. He doesn't stop there, he goes on with how much their lives have changed after the absence of Jones...

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... against him. Many came forward and were executed on the spot. These animals are "traitors", but they did not actually do anything. They confessed because they were scared. Napoleon even goes as far as to have "a poem entitled Comrade Napoleon"(100) written to show how the animals how much they care about him. However, when Boxer, the hardest and most unquestioning ... doing more work and very willingly because they believe that they are doing it of their own will and because they are free. Yet, when the pigs, now on two legs, invite the humans over, the animals "looked from pig to man, ...

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