The Animal Farm

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as governor and ate all the food, drank beer, and lived in the owner’s house. However, to the farm animals, they considered these to be the 7 commandments:
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs and 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 another animal.
7. All animals are equal.

Toward the end of the novel the pigs will have broken all of these commandments, which lead to their demise.
Orwell’s novel depicts how a society can be corrupted if all the power was left to one individual. In this case, the animals left all the power to the pigs and they took advantage of that power. In my opinion, Orwell did a good job in portraying animals to signify the human counterpart. I enjoyed the fact that he made the pigs in charge and later we found out that the pigs were evil and corrupted, similar to politicians ...

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