Commandment In George Orwell's Animal Farm

regardless of the circumstances they are born in to. Often times people in history will strive to elude danger or struggle in an attempt to stray from conflict entirely. In the book, Animal Farm by George Orwell, the use of self-preservation was present in most of the main characters, as it is an instinct. Benjamin, a pessimist donkey, presented the same attitude towards the rebellion through it’s entirety. In the following paragraphs I will explain how Benjamin used self-preservation in order to survive on the Animal Farm and the role self-preservation plays in present society.

People believe that they make every decision themselves using their own thoughts and ideas, but this is not entirely true. Whether it is an ad on TV for a burger or a political speech talking about the future of the country, the goal of these is to persuade people one way or the other. They do this because humans are easily manipulated by ads, propaganda, and false facts. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegory based on communist Soviet Union before and during Joseph Stalin’s time as leader. Orwell showed, using pigs and other animals, how easy it is to manipulate someone into believing something. The pigs manipulated the other animals on the farm by effectively using rhetoric like logos, ethos, and pathos in their speeches.

I have decided to explore the theme of how ‘Fear is a powerful motivator’. Different leaders and influential people have various ways of using fear to motivate people. Two of my texts: ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell, and ‘The Rise of Evil” directed by Christian Duguay, both show how totalitarian leaders used violence to motivate the public. The other texts: ‘Bowling for Columbine’ directed by Michael Moore, and ‘Who’s for the Game’ by Jesse Pope, both show how two different influential people motivated the public without using violence, instead creating fear using words.

Napoleon exploit's the animals inferiority complex. When he changes the seven commandments to justify his actions, the animals are doubtful as their memories tell them that the seven commandments were different. However Squealer tells them that they are wrong and it is just a figment of their imagination. The animals think that if napoleon says so then he must be right and so let him get away with it.

Broken April by Ismail Kadare,takes place in the mountainous regions of Albania. The Kanun is a set of rules that controls every single aspect of the daily lives of the inhibit ants of the mountains.Gjorg is pressured by his family to seek vengeance for the death of his older brother by his family, in order to restore the family's honor. Bessian and his wife Diana are from the city, on their honeymoon. Kadare uses the increasing lack of physical proximity amongst them( Bessian and Diana) to illustrate the destructive nature of the Kanun on a relationship,in particular the blood code.Bessian’s obsession of the Kanun causes an obverse reaction by Diana, who later develops her own obsession with it, allowing Bessian to realize the destructive nature of the blood code.

The first few changes went against the commandments, such as he canceled Sundays morning meetings, he and the other pigs decided that they were going to move into Mr.Jones home and he also started engaging in trade with neighboring farms, an example of this, “Napoleon announced that there would be work on Saturday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half” ( 92). Napoleon started slowly changing things for the worse. Some of the commandments he started breaking was things such as pigs sleeping in beds, drinking beer, and using money and he even made the song beast of England illegal. The pigs started lying to the animals and giving themselves special privileges, even though equality between the animals was incredibly important and was the causes of the

One way Napoleon took control of Animal Farm was by Ideology. By using Ideology to take control, he used the Seven Commandments. The Seven Commandments were seven rules that the animals had to live by. The Seven Commandments were reduced to two legs good, four legs bad. After seeing Squealer lying in the

The pigs disobeyed all of the commandments. The main one was to do things like humans and Napoleon started trading with humans. Napoleon traded with Frederick and Frederick did not pay Napoleon with real money so Napoleon was furious. Frederick put together an attack on Animal Farm and planned to take down the windmill. Frederick put together an army and each man had a gun. In this battle, several animals were injured and several died, even Boxer was shot. If Napoleon were to follow the commandments the humans would not turn on him and knock down the windmill because, there would be no association. Today if you do not follow the rules you could get a detention or even worse, go to jail which would lead to your life being ruined. Or if you don’t follow certain rules in the branches of military you have a chance of death.

Squealer and Napoleon are known throughout the story to change the original seven commandments, that they implemented after the rebellion, to fit their own agenda. For example, when Napoleon first took power he did not let Mollie wear her ribbons which lead to her leaving the farm, but the pigs change this rule, “and also that all pigs, of whatever degree, were to have the privilege of wearing green ribbons on their tails on Sundays (114).” This shows the rewriting of laws, because they said before that you cannot wear ribbons, however when a pig wants to wear a ribbon it is acceptable. Another time when the pigs change rules to get their way is when the pigs go to the seven commandments and add to the fourth one. The original law is that no animal can sleep in a bed, nevertheless when then the pigs are sleeping in beds they add the word “with sheets” so they can get away with it.

On pages 24 and 25 they stated the 7 commandments that are supposed to be rules for all the animals. They started out with good intentions but throughout the book Napoleon has been changing the commandments. Napoleon began to use the fact that most of the animals could not read and he added to to the seven commandments. A couple of the 7 commandments that were changed were originally; 4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. 5. No animals shall drink alcohol. 6. No animals shall kill any other animal. 7. All animals are equal. But Napoleon began to change them to fit his own needs. On page 67 Napoleon changed the 4th commandment to no animals shall sleep in a bed with sheets, he said that the sheets were an invention made by humans be he really just wanted to sleep in a comfortable bed. On page 91 he changed the 6th commandment to no animals shall kill any other animals without cause and on page 109 he changed commandment 5 to no animal shall drink alcohol to excess. Again on page 134 he changed the last commandment, commandment 7 to all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. He changed many rules to

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