Look at the seven commandments, where do they come from? Do you think they will be effective in ensuring in old major’s vision? Why? Why not?
The seven commandments, which are taken from old majors speech are very influential in the book animal farm, but I do not think it will be effective in ensuring in old major’s visions for many reasons, such as the pigs eventually will become corrupt with power and the picked leaders of the group instead of all being equal.
You can tell the pigs will eventually become corrupt with power because when they take the milk they do not return it and have it all to them selves meaning that they will eventually want more and more until they become humans and even if the pigs say everyone’s equal that is not true and is shown through one, themselves taking the milk and two, making themselves the leader of the group separating them fro the others.
Explain the significance of the milk. What happens to it? Why is this important? What does it suggest for the future?
The milk gets taken by the pig which is a very important starting point of the book because it shows how the pigs are starting to get greedy and putting themselves ahead of the other animals.
You can tell they are starting to get greedy because they took the milk for them selves and will later want more and more until they eventually take over everything and become humans themselves. But the even stranger thing is the animals are not smart enough to realise this, they trust the pigs about everything even though the pigs are taking every thing away from them that was promised.
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First important thing - if you don't want the others impersonating you on your blog, I'll show you how to change the settings...though it is amusing that they keep pretending to be you while logged in as them...Secondly, very thorough answers - I like the way you connect the issue of the Commandments to the pigs behaviour, in particular the taking of the milk. I think you then make a good point that it seems odd that the animals seem to just stand back and let it all happen. Certainly Orwell points to their lack of intelligence as being one of the reasons why this happens, but not all the animals are as silly as the sheep - do you think there are other factors?
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