The Seven Commandments In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Argument: Throughout the ending of the book the pigs has led to changing the seven commandments into one rule of Animal Farm ‘’all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”. The pigs are shown as the smartest animal on the farm and they take advantage of their knowledge. So they use propaganda to get the Animal Farm to work hard meanwhile the pigs get rich.
Snowball and Napoleon would all ways disagree on arguments. Snowball decided to leave animal farm and Napoleon gained leadership of the Animal Farm.
Evidence: The book shows in the beginning that Old Major, the, boar, dreams of the farms run by animals for animals, with liberty and equality for all. When the animals of Manor Farm, led by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, drive out Farmer Jones and set up ‘’Animal Farm’’ the dream seems to become true. But as the pigs (Napoleon and Squealer) become more powerful Old Major’s turns horribly as Napoleon gain power.
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Before the other animals have a chance to react to the change, the sheep begin to chant, as if on cue: “Four legs good, two legs better!” Clover, whose eyes are failing in her old age, asks Benjamin to read the writing on the barn wall where the Seven Commandments were originally inscribed. Only the last commandment remains: “all animals are equal.” However, it now carries an addition: “but some animals are more equal than others.” In the days that follow, Napoleon openly begins smoking a pipe, and the other pigs subscribe to human magazines, listen to the radio, and begin to install a telephone, also wearing human clothes that they have took from Mr. Jones’s

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