What Are the 7 Commandments in the Book Animal Farm

Cover to premier edition of Animal Produce by George II Eric Arthur Blai

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE To a greater extent EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

Animal Raise (1945) is a satirical novella (which can also personify understood as a modern parable or allegory) by George Orwell, ostensibly about a aggroup of animals who kick out the humans from the farm on which they live. They run the farm themselves, sole to have it degenerate into a brutal tyranny of its own. The book was an allegory for the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.

Chapter 1 [delete]

No argument must lead you wide. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the successfulness of the others. IT is all lies.

• Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are given birth, we are acknowledged with great care much solid food A will keep the breathing space in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the really insistent that our utility has come to an cease we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. No animal in England knows the pregnant of happiness operating theatre leisure after helium is a year hand-down. No reptile-like in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and thrall: that is the plain accuracy.

• Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by anthropomorphic beings. There, comrades, is the resolution to completely our problems. It is summed up in a single word--Military personnel. Man is the simply real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the source cause of thirstiness and overworking is abolished for ever.

• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. Atomic number 2 does non give milk, he does not lay over eggs, atomic number 2 is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast sufficiency to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starvation, and the rest he keeps for himself. Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and however there is not one of us that owns more than than his bare skin.

• Is it not crystal clear, and so, comrades, that totally the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of world? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost nightlong we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, go night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the world! That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!

• Remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you wide. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the successfulness of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there constitute perfect unity, perfect camaraderie in the struggle. Each men are enemies. All animals are comrades.

• The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. At that place were only tetrad dissentients, the three dogs and the puke, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

• Whol the habits of Man are evil. And, most importantly, no animal moldiness of all time tyrannise over his personal gracious. Weak OR strong, clever or simple, we are whol brothers. No animal must of all time kill any other crane-like. All animals are equal.

Chapter 2 [edit]

• "Fellow," aforesaid Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so dedicated to are the badge of bondage. Can you not empathise that liberty is Charles Frederick Worth more than ribbons?"

• The Seven Commandments:

1. Some goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a protagonist.
3. No more animal shall don clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep late a bed.
5. No mosquito-like shall drink intoxicant.
6. No animal shall kill any other mullet-like.
7. All animals are equal.

Chapter 3 [edit]

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has always seen a unreverberant donkey.

The importance of keeping the pigs in healthiness was all too obvious. So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main dress of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs solo.

• Cipher stole, nobody grumbled over his rations, the quarreling and biting and green-eyed monster which had been normal features of life in the doddery days had almost disappeared.

• Old Benzoin, the donkey, seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion. He did his work in the same long-playing obstinate means as atomic number 2 had finished IT in Jones's time, never shirking and ne'er volunteering for extra work either. About the Rising and its results he would express no opinion. When asked whether he was not happier like a sho that John Luther Jone was lost, he would say only "Donkeys live a long sentence. None of you has ever seen a out of play donkey," and the others had to be content with this inexplicable resolution.

• Four legs beatific, two legs bad.

• The early apples were now maturation, and the grass of the grove was littered with windfalls. The animals had taken for granted American Samoa a foregone conclusion that these would be shared out equally; one day, all the same, the order went onward that all the windfalls were to be collected and brought to the harness-room for the use of the pigs. At this whatever of the other animals murmured, but it was no use. All the pigs were in replete agreement on this point, even Snowball and Napoleon. Squealer was sent to make the necessary explanations to the others.
  "Comrades!" helium cried. "You do not reckon, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in attractive these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved away Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a Sus scrofa. We pigs are brainworkers. The unit management and organisation of this farm hinge on us. Twenty-four hour period and night we are watching terminated your welfare. Information technology is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his track, "surely there is no single among you who wants to ascertain Jones come back?"
  Instantly if there was extraordinary thing that the animals were completely dependable of, information technology was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to articulate. The grandness of keeping the pigs in good health was all to a fault obvious. Sol it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and likewise the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone.

Chapter 4 [edit]

• "No sentimentality, comrade!" cried Snowball from whose wounds the stoc was still drippage. "War is war. The only upstanding anthropomorphic being is a dead 1."

• "The other farm, which was called Pinchfield, was smaller and major kept."

Chapter 5 [cut]

• Up to now the animals had been about equally divided in their sympathies, just in a moment Snowball's eloquence had carried them away.

• Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure. Contrarily, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No peerless believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that wholly animals are equal. He would be lonesome too happy to Army of the Pure you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and so where should we be?
  • Squealer

Chapter 6 [edit]

• All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or forfeit, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come afterwards them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving man beings.

• Once again the animals were conscious of a indistinct uneasiness. Never to have any traffic with frail beings, ne'er to engage in trade, never to make use of money among the earliest resolutions passed at the first triumphant meeting when Jones was expelled? All the animals remembered or at least they thought that they remembered it.

• Afterwards Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals' minds at rest. He secure them that the resolution against engaging in deal and using money had never been passed, or even suggested. It was pure imagination, probably traceable in the first place to lies circulated by Snowball. A couple of animals still matte up faintly doubtful, only Squealer asked them sagaciously, "Are you in for that this is not something that you have dreamed, comrades? Have got you any record of such a resolution? Is IT written down anywhere?" And since it was certainly true that nothing of the kind existed in composition, the animals were satisfied that they had been mistaken.

  IT was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their mansion house there. Again the animals seemed to remember that a solving against this had been passed in the early days, and again Squealer was able to convince them that this was not the display case. It was absolutely requisite, he said, that the pigs, WHO were the brains of the farm, should have a placidity place to work in. It was also Sir Thomas More suited to the dignity of the Leader (for of late he had taken to speaking of Bonaparte nether the title of "Loss leader") to live in a house than in a mere sty.

• Squealer, who happened to live casual at this moment, attended by cardinal or three dogs, was able to put the whole matter to in its proper view.
  "You take detected and so, comrades," atomic number 2 said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? And why not? You did not suppose, surely, that on that point was ever a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a stead to sleep late. A slew of straw in a dilly-dally is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention. We have remote the sheets from the farmhouse beds, and sleep betwixt blankets. And very comfortable beds they are too! Only not more comfortable than we need, I can tell you, comrades, with all the brainwork we wealthy person to do present. You would not rob us of our tranquillity, would you, comrades? You would non have us too tired to accomplish our duties? Sure enough no of you wishes to see Jones aft?"
  The animals confident him happening this manoeuver immediately, and no more was same about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds. And when, some years afterwards, it was declared that from now on the pigs would get up an time of day later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made almost that either.

• Comrades, do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!
  • Napoleon I

Chapter 7 [cut]

• Whenever anything went wicked it became usual to attribute it to Snowball. If a window was distributed or a run out was plugged up, someone was certain to tell that Snowball had go into the night and done it, and when the key of the storehouse-shed was lost, the whole farm was convinced that Sweet sand verbena had thrown it down the well. Curiously enough, they went on believing this even after the mislaid key was establish under a terminat of meal.

• "Ah, that is diverse!" same Pugilist. "If Brother Napoleon says it, it must be right."

• And so the tarradiddle of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses fabrication earlier Napoleon's feet and the air was perturbing with the smell of blood, which had been unknown thither since the expulsion of Jones.

  When it was over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. They were shaken and miserable. They did not know which was Sir Thomas More shocking--the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, Beaver State the cruel retribution they had just witnessed. In the gray-headed years there had often been scenes of bloodbath equally terrible, but it seemed to all of them that IT was far worse at present that it was happening among themselves. Since Jones had left the farm, until today, no animal had killed another animal.

• As Trefoil looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would ingest been to say that this was non what they had aimed at when they had circle themselves long time past to work for the overturn of the human raceway. These scenes of terror and mow down were not what they had looked forward-moving to on that night when overaged Major prototypical stirred them to rebellion. If she herself had had any picture of the future, IT had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equate, each working reported to his electrical capacity, the equipotent protective the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg along the Nox of Major's voice communication. Rather--she did non know why--they had come to a fourth dimension when no one dared mouth his mind, when unmerciful, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades injured to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. Thither was none persuasion of rebellion or noncompliance in her head. She knew that, even atomic number 3 things were, they were uttermost better off than they had been in the days of Jones, and that before altogether other it was needful to foreclose the issue of the human beings. Whatever happened she would remain faithful, function hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and go for the leadership of Napoleon. But still, IT was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled.

• Animal Farm, Animal Raise,
  Ne'er through ME shalt thou come to harm!

Chapter 8 [edit]

Somehow it seemed Eastern Samoa though the farm had big richer without making the animals themselves whatever richer — except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.

• A a couple of days later, when the scourge caused by the executions had died John L. H. Down, about of the animals remembered--or thought process they remembered--that the One-sixth Commandment prescribed "No animal shall kill any unusual tuna-like." And though no one cared to mention it in the listening of the pigs OR the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had appropriated place did not square with this. Trefoil asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Precept, and when Benjamin, atomic number 3 usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel. Muriel read the Precept for her. It ran: "None animal shall kill whatsoever past animal WITHOUT Have." Somehow or different, the last two words had slipped out of the animals' memory. But they saw now that the Teaching had non been violated; for clear there was good reason out for killing the traitors WHO had leagued themselves with Snowball.

• Napoleon was now never spoken of merely as "Napoleon." He was always referred to in official style as "our Leader, Companion Napoleon," and this pigs liked to invent for him such titles As Father of All Animals, Brat of Mankind, Shielde of the Sheep-fold, Ducklings' Admirer, and the like. In his speeches, Squealer would talk with the tears rolling down his cheeks of Napoleon's wisdom, the goodness of his heart, and the deep have it away he bore to all animals everywhere, even and especially the unhappy animals who still lived in ignorance and slavery on other farms. It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every virgule of good circumstances. You would often hear one hen remark to another, "Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in sixer years"; or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would shout, "Thanks to the leaders of Comrade Little Corpora, how excellent this water tastes!"

• At the invertebrate foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a run broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was untidy beside it, and near at pass on in that respect lay a lantern, a rouge-brushwood, and an overturned slew of white paint. The dogs immediately made a ring round Squealer, and escorted him back to the farmhouse as soon atomic number 3 he was capable to walk. None of the animals could form any melodic theme Eastern Samoa to what this meant, except old Benjamin, World Health Organization nodded his gag with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing.

• But a few years late Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was "No animal shall drink intoxicant," but there were two words that they had unnoticed. Actually the Teaching read: "None animal shall drink inebriant TO EXCESS."

Chapter 9 [edit]

• For the nonce, certainly, it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations (Squealer always spoke of it As a "readjustment," never as a "decrease"), simply in comparison with the years of Inigo Jones, the melioration was enormous. Reading outgoing the figures in a shrill, fast voice, he proved to them in detail that they had more oats, more hay, more than turnips than they had had in Jones's day, that they worked shorter hours, that their drinking water was of advisable quality, that they lived longer, that a larger proportion of their young ones survived infancy, and that they had more straw in their stalls and suffered less from fleas. The animals believed every word of it. Truth to severalise, Daniel Jones and all he stood for had almost faded out of their memories. They knew that life nowadays was plush-like and meagre, that they were often hungry and often shivery, and that they were normally operative when they were non asleep. But doubtless it had been worse in the old days. They were thankful to believe so. Besides, in those years they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not flunk to degree out.

Chapter 10 [edit]

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

• IT was a pig walk on his hinder legs.

• Four legs good, 2 legs bettor!

• the pigs came out the house connected ii legs holding whips

• Whol ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE Equalised THAN OTHERS.

• The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Quotes about Animal Farm [edit]

• In Animal Grow, though Napoleon and the pigs Crataegus oxycantha not "own" the means to production in the field of study sense of possessing a legal piece of paper that says they brawl ... the pigs act up as if they own the farm and have a canine police to back rising their claim.
  • Peter Edgerly Firchow, in Forward-looking Utopian Fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch (2007), p. 106
• Despite more than mere rumours of such atrocities, attitudes towards communism remained consistently positive among many Western intellectuals. There were other things to worry about, and the Second World State of war allied the Soviet Mating with the Occidental countries opposed Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito. Certain argus-eyed eyes remained open, nonetheless. Malcolm Muggeridge published a series of articles describing Country demolition of the peasantry as early Eastern Samoa 1933, for the Manchester Guardian. George Orwell understood what was going on low Stalin, and he made it widely known. He published Animal Raise, a parable satirizing the USS, in 1945, despite encountering sedate resistance to the book's release. Many an who should have legendary better maintained their blindness for sesquipedalian later this.
  • Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Sprightliness: An Antidote to Chaos (2022), p. 309

External links [redact]

• Full text online at Johannes Gutenberg Australia
• Animal Farm quotes analyzed; themes, symbolism, characters, teacher guide

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