At the
beginning of chapter II, the author
states that " was a more vivacious character than ,
quicker in speech and
more inventive," and many of the early slogans can be attributed to
him. For
example, it is Snowball that paints and reads out the seven commandments that
become
the basis for most of the slogans.
The seven
commandments are as
follows:
1.
Whatever goes upon two legs is an
enemy.2. Whatever goes
upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal
shall wear clothes.4. No animal shall sleep in a
bed.5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No
animal shall
kill any other animal.7. All animals are
equal.
When the animals struggle to
learn the commandments by heart,
Snowball condenses them into the much easier
to remember "Four legs good. Two legs
bad."
In the end,
Napoleon, who doesn't seem have the same intelligence
as Snowball and
therefore the ability to control the animals throughalone, chases Snowball
off
the farm and starts to lead in a more brutal manner.
In the final chapters,
Napoleon's ideas seem nothing more than a
twist on Snowball's ideas and he slowly changes the
seven commandments to fit
his own lifestyle. For example, after Napoleon and the other pigs get
drunk,
Napoleon changes "No animal shall drink alcohol" to "No animals shall
drink
alcohol to excess." After Napoleon kills animals who he says are traitors, he
changes
"No animal shall kill any other animal" to "No animal shall kill any
other animal
without cause."
By the end of the book, the
seven commandments have been
reduced to one line. "All animals are equal, but
some are more equal than
others."
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