The principles of Animalism are espoused by Old Major in his speech to the farm and then modified by the pigs as they see fit. The pigs tell the other animals that “by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments” . These commandments are intended to keep all of the animals equal.
THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS
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.
The pig said that everyone would follow the commandments and “they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after”. Of course, it does not quite work out this way. Soon the pigs began changing the commandments. For example, commandment 4 is changed to forbid not beds, but beds with sheets. Some animals realize the commandments are being changed.
Clover had not
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