The Ten Commandments Essay

people pick and chose what we want to when it comes to explicit commandments. According to page 67 in the Ethical Toolbox, it states “There are also a large number of explicit commandments that almost no one takes seriously and almost all of us feel free to ignore.” If a person can ignore certain explicit commandments that means they are choosing what they want to believe in. I believe most people decide when it comes to explicit commandments but I do believe that some people see nothing but…

In the middle of the book, Napoleon gains control of the farm by chasing Snowball off with the nine guard dogs that are under Napoleons control. Napoleon becomes the dictator of Animal Farm and breaks all the rules that are part of the Seven Commandments throughout the book. The first rule is “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.” He broke this rule at the end of the book, when all the pigs decided that walking on two legs was better. Which is ironic because the pigs became the enemies of…

emphasized that without rules, there is no reason or foundation for morality, so the tendency is to conform to savagery. In fact, if there are no rules, would morality exist at all? This question can easily be compared to the idea that if there were no commandments, where is the initial foundation of morality? Golding depicted many different characters to play an either blunt or subtle change from good to savagery. To outline this idea, he used some…

Animal Farm is set in 1945 on a small farm in England. The events that take place on the farm mimic that of the Russian revolution. The farm is ruled by a cruel man named Mr Jones. The animals get fed up with his cruelty and rebel. They then run the farm with Snowball and Napoleon (the farm pigs) as the leaders. Napoleon is an allegory for Stalin and Snowball is an allegory for Leon Trotsky. The actions of both characters reflect those of the Russian rulers. This essay will focus on the two…

reality, the pigs just wanted to take all the food and were doing everything for themselves. The pigs also treated the other animals unfairly. When Snowball was the leader, he created the rule that all animals are equal, however, Squealer changed the commandment on the barn wall to say that all animals are equal, but some are “more equal than others” (134 Orwell). The pigs gave themselves higher positions than the rest of the animals. The pigs also ate way more than the other animals even in the…

The content and interpretations of the Deuteronomic Code, on the other hand, stray much father away from uniformity than the Decalogue, arguably narrating a broader set of moral and legal obligations of the Israelites. Its reassertion of the Commandments further enforces the aforementioned covenant relationship between God and the Israelites, which introducing a concrete set of civil laws; of which, are a standard for governing society. The similarities are striking, and in many cases,…

Mosaic law code and the Hammurabi law are two sets of laws that are significantly different. Hammurabi main focus is making a stable, and structured life. Mosaic law code, god wants his people to reflect his holiness. Both law codes have a different idea of what a responsible and faithful citizen should be. Both law codes try to enforce on what is right, wrong, and how the citizens should live. Mosaic law code plays a major role in the relationship the citizens have with god. They are able to…

Jones’ bed. First, the system of checks and balances would help eliminate Napoleon’s abuse of power when he made deals and trades with the farmers. As stated in the first commandment, “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.” (Orwell 24). At the beginning of the book the animals…

Sabbath Exodus 20:8 states “Remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy” (NIV). Though the Sabbath is vital piece of spiritual formation and a command from God, the author has unfortunately been very poor at observing one. Life is busy. With one child at school and one at home, spouse working at the church, being a pastor of a church that has multiple services on Sundays and nearly every week activities on nearly every day of the week, the author has found it difficult to not only take personal time…

is close to impossible to keep rules and order robust. With having power over propaganda and suppression, one essentially has complete control over the population. At one point, rules and order become meaningless in Napoleon’s case as nearly all commandments are changed or erased, leaving the animals helpless. Plato once said, ”Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme…