Old Benjamin In Animal Farm

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In Animal Farm, there is an old mule known as Old Benjamin who is wise and intelligent and also represents a person in Soviet Russia. A good example of this is seen when Squealer was adding to the Fifth Commandments and Benjamin knew what was changed. Instead of saying, “No animal shall drink alcohol,” it was then written, “No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.” Even though Benjamin knows that it was altered and the animals did not he did not speak up publicly or privately. His comments generally remain to himself. However, that changes when in chapter nine, Boxer went down from illness doing to much hard labor and was then sent to the “hospital”. But then, Benjamin shouted, “Fools! Fools!...do you not understand what that means?” (123;ch.9).

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