The Seven Commandments
In the novel Animal Farm, George Orwell takes the reader on a journey from a dictatorship to a democracy and back to a dictatorship. It’s an illustration of how greed and power can destroy a society. It is a story of how injustice can spark a revolution and how corruption can undermine a democracy. In the beginning of the novel, the Animal Farm is controlled by a greedy farmer, “Mr. Jones”, who treats the animals poorly. The animals, inspired by the vision of a pig named “Old Major”, run the farmer away from the farm and take it over. In order to establish a framework for the democracy the animals develop seven commandments on which to base their society. As the story unfolds, the seven commandments change and thus
In the novel Animal Farm, George Orwell takes the reader on a journey from a dictatorship to a democracy and back to a dictatorship. It’s an illustration of how greed and power can destroy a society. It is a story of how injustice can spark a revolution and how corruption can undermine a democracy. In the beginning of the novel, the Animal Farm is controlled by a greedy farmer, “Mr. Jones”, who treats the animals poorly. The animals, inspired by the vision of a pig named “Old Major”, run the farmer away from the farm and take it over. In order to establish a framework for the democracy the animals develop seven commandments on which to base their society. As the story unfolds, the seven commandments change and thus