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      Animal Farm

      by George Orwell (1945)

       

      Watch this video before reading the text:

       

      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.  

       

       It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. It was also more suited to the dignity of the Leader (for of late he had taken to speaking of Napoleon under the title of ‘Leader’) to live in a house than in a mere sty. Nevertheless some of the animals were disturbed when they heard that the pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing-room as a recreation room, but also slept in the beds.  

       

      A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered—or thought they remembered—that the Sixth Commandment decreed: ‘No animal shall kill any other animal.’ And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this. Clover asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel. Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.’ Somehow or other the last two words had slipped out of the animals’ memory.  

       

      Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer—except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.  

       

       (Towards the end of the book):

      There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:   ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.   After that it did not seem strange when next day the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters.   

       

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