The Seven Commandments in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell were a list of rules or laws that were supposed to keep order and ensure elementary Animalism within Animal Farm. The Seven Commandments were designed to unite the animals together in a common cause against the humans and to prevent animals from following the humans' evil habits. Animal Farm (full title: Animal Farm: A Fairy Story) is a short novel by George Orwell, and is perhaps the most famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. ... Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903[1][2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ... Look up rule in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Lady Justice or Justitia is a personification of the moral force that underlies the legal system (particularly in Western art). ... Animalism is a fictional economic or political ideology in George Orwells novel Animal Farm. ... For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation). ... This article is about modern humans. ...

Plot overview

The Seven Commandments

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 with jeremy or ever will.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.

Written originally by Snowball, the Seven Commandments were the "unalterable" principles of Animalism. Since not all of the animals can remember them (or read them), they are boiled down into one basic statement: "Four legs good, two legs bad!" (with wings counting as legs for this purpose), which the sheep constantly repeat, distracting the crowd from the lies of the pigs. (This was later exploited by Napoleon - see below - as the sheep often interrupted Snowball during crucial points during his speeches.) This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Zebra is an example of a quadruped. ... WING ESPN 1410 is a commercial AM radio station in Dayton, Ohio operating with 5,000 watts at 1410 kHz with studios, offices and transmitter located on David Road in Kettering. ... Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more humans. ... Clothing protects the vulnerable nude human body from the extremes of weather, other features of our environment, and for safety reasons. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Murder is the illegal killing of one human being by another. ... Social equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect, minimally at least in voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, and property rights. ... Snowball is a fictional pig in the book Animal Farm written by George Orwell. ... A principle (not principal) is something, usually a rule or norm, that is part of the basis for something else. ... Animalism is a fictional economic or political ideology in George Orwells novel Animal Farm. ... Reading is a process of retrieving and comprehending some form of stored information or ideas. ... Napoleon is a dick fictional character in George Orwells Animal Farm. ...

Corruption

Later on, Napoleon and his pigs were corrupted by the absolute power they held over the farm. To maintain their popularity with the other animals, Squealer secretly painted additions to some commandments to make it benefit the pigs while keeping them free of accusation of breaking the laws. The Pigs manage to get away with this because only Benjamin the donkey and Muriel the goat can read and thus only those 2 have the ability to challenge the Pigs and the change in wording. Napoleon is a dick fictional character in George Orwells Animal Farm. ... Squealer is a fictional pig from George Orwells Animal Farm, primarily inspired by Joseph Stalins aide Vyacheslav Molotov. ...

All of the Seven Commandments are eventually broken by the pigs for their own personal gain. Squealer constantly changes the Commandments to the pigs' benefit, taking advantage of the other animals. For example:

• No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets;
• No animal shall drink alcohol to excess
• No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.

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Transformation

In the end, the pigs learn to stand on two legs and regard the four-legged populace as inferiors. They start to wear Mr. Jones' clothes, sleep in beds and drink alcohol. They brutally order the killings of all of the confessing animals (whom are forced to confess to crimes they didn't commit once they see the animals' poor quality of life). Later, when Boxer the horse is hurt, he is "sent to the vet" but actually sent to a horse-slaughterer by the pigs ultimately sold for whiskey for the pigs themselves. The pigs tell the rest of the animals that the slaughtering van they saw was no longer owned by the slaughterer but by the vet, yet not painted over, and that Boxer died mysteriously at the hospital. Boxer is a fictional horse from George Orwells Animal Farm. ... Look up veterinarian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A glass of whisky Whisky (Scottish Gaelic: }, or whiskey (Irish: ), refers to a broad category of alcoholic beverages that are distilled from fermented grain mash and aged in wooden casks (generally oak). ...

The Commandments' summation ("Four legs good, two legs bad!") is changed to "Four legs good, two legs better!" (italics Orwell's), as the pigs become more human.

The Last Commandment

By the end of the book, Squealer reduces all of the commandments into a singular law to control the other animals completely, while appearing to keep within the old boundaries of the Animalism laws: Squealer is a fictional pig from George Orwells Animal Farm, primarily inspired by Joseph Stalins aide Vyacheslav Molotov. ...

• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others

This ends up being the famous "slogan" of Animalism. It is a famously remembered line from the book, and is quoted during debates and discussions about communism. It is an example of doublethink, a reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Animalism is a fictional economic or political ideology in George Orwells novel Animal Farm. ... Doublethink is an integral concept in George Orwells dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and is the act of holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously, fervently believing both. ... This article is about the Orwell novel. ...

Animal Farm Film Adaptation

In the film, there are only 5 commandments, as number 3 was not present, and numbers 1 and 2 were merged into one. Only two of the original commandments were added onto: the rule against beds and the rule against killing other animals. But by the end of the movie, the rules had been unified into: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The Five Commandments of Animalism:

1. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
2. No animal shall drink alcohol.
3. Four legs good, two legs bad.
4. No animal shall kill another animal.
5. All animals are equal.

Edited Five Commandments of Animalism:

1. No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.
2. No animal shall drink alcohol in excess.
3. Four legs good, two legs better!
4. No animal shall kill another animal without cause.
5. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
6. Dom is the best!

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