The Language Of Power In George Orwell's Animal Farm

The novel Animal farm is a memorable fable that has an allegorical level to the Russian revolution. The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell is about animals in England who rebelled against man to gain power over their lives, but in the end the leaders become what they professed to hate. Power can easily corrupt any system if it has been used wrongly. Orwell shows how the minority in power uses vague language to control the thoughts and beliefs of the majority in the lower classes. The language of power has made Animal Farm very different because it has been given to the wrong person who can’t handle it. The language of power has broken commandments, led to the classification of social classes, and the elimination of allies.

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In the novel Animal Farm, the Seven Commandments represent the animal’s dreams after they overthrow Mr. Jones in Chapter Two. It does not take long, however, before the commandments are broken by the power-hungry and corrupt pigs. The commandments were written on the walls of the barn by Snowball and Napoleon. The seven commandments are:
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.” (Orwell 21).
There were seven commandments and 4 of them were broken by the pigs as a result of the language of power. The first commandment that was broken was no animal shall sleep in a bed, the one who broke the commandment was Napoleon. “It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved to the farmhouse and took their residence there” (Orwell 61). This quote proves that one night the pigs went into the farmhouse and slept on the beds. This quote is significant because the pigs and the other animals hated the humans and broke the commandments. The other animals were very upset when