Animal Farm Equality

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This incident in its funny way brings out the basic unnaturalness and dilemma of the philosophy of equality-if understood literary as meaning that all are equal in talents and skills.
The pigs, who consider themselves as the wisest of all, take themselves upon the organization of the farm. They compose the standards of their new framework called Animalism on the wall. The standards are decreased to Seven Commandments for the animals to remember effortlessly. As indicated by these standards no animals will be in association with or will be in contact with man.
In Animal Farm, with the revolt over, what is needed are the accoutrements for a new country. The melody "Beasts of England" which is sung a few times over on significant events gets

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