Commandment In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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As the animals become freer, they get crazier and change the commandments more and more. When number 7 was originally “all animals are equal” and it was changed to “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. This doesn’t make any sense because you can’t be more equal. The commandment was mysteriously changed when the pigs decided they wanted to wear clothes, so they were more equal than the other animals and they could do what they wanted.
When some of the animals admit to helping or being in touch with snowball, and because he was exiled from animal farm, they were slaughtered by the dogs who guarded Napoleon. The animals remembered that this broke a commandment but when they looked the former “no animal shall kill

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