Animal Farm Quote Analysis

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"There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS” (Orwell 134). This quote means that animals are all animals, but some are more than just animals. This is also like humans are all humans, we eat, we talk, and we sleep. But some humans have more privileges than others.
In Animal farm the narrator said this quote, but the action was performed by Squealer and Napoleon. The importance in the story is that the animals were told these commandments, and they were told to follow them. But then later on in the story their leader Napoleon started to break the rules so then he had Squealer change the commandments. Then after the commandments were being changed the animals

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