The Seven Commandments In Animal Farm

Many of the pigs in Animal Farm are hypocritical throughout the book and disregard any earlier events, statements, or rules for their own personal gain, pleasure, and control. They break any rule without remorse, spit out contradictory statements, and completely censor their own past in an effort to take control.

The pigs in Animal Farm break the Seven Commandments that they coined with the agreement that everyone would follow the rules to a ‘T’, and yet still enforce the rules on the others. For example, the fourth rule they state and agree upon by all animals in the group is that, “No animal shall sleep in a bed.” It's straightforward, no-nonsense, and has no loopholes. Along with this rule, the pigs break another one of their rules, which is to not disrupt the Barn House due to the fact that it is to be a museum, and sleep in the beds that used to be owned by the humans. When they are caught punishment is sure to be administered, as they (the pigs), would have done if any other of the animals had broken the rule, but the pigs sweet talk their way out of punishment, as well as change the rules behind the other animals back, so the rules proudly displayed on the

In Old Major’s big speech, he boasts about how he had a great life, but then follows up with reassurance that he’s felt the same hardships and bad times as the other animals, even the a reader could glean from his previous boasts that he hasn’t felt many hard times at all due to his prize-winning-boar status, and the fact that Mr. Jones would never harm him in case of lowering his value. Another minor, but you could argue major, instance of hypocrisy, is in which they break the last and most important rule states “All animals are equal,” in almost everything they do, despite being raised to the leader position for the good of all animals, and despite the fact that they promised to bring a better life for the