Ten Commandments In Animal Farm
A long time ago God gave Moses a slate with the Ten Commandments written on them for us to follow. It serves as a guideline for how we should live our lives and make it to Heaven. In the fictional story Animal Farm by George Orwell the seven Commandments of Animalism serves as a Base for animal equality. Eventually the animals break these commandments one by one and create a metaphorical dictatorship. This relates to The Churches Ten commandments in a few ways. First the Jews in Exodus love the idea of the Commandments, but break a lot of them. Second, the number seven and how it relates to the history of our church and how that number may relate to our faith. Next, some of the commandments have many similarities. for example, “no animal should kill any other animal,” (Orwell 21) and “thou shall not kill.”
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For example the sixth Catholic Commandment states “thou shall not kill,” (Exodus 20:13) and the Sixth Commandment of Animalism says “no animal shall kill any other.” (Orwell 21) Also a lot of the rules the Animals made has to do with staying or looking as far off from humans as possible. Humans in Animal Farm play the role of sin, as the ten Catholic commandments creates a base for us to use to help with not committing sin. So if in Animal Farm humans play the role of sin the two sets of commandments relate to each other by achieving the common goal of not sinning or as in animal farm not participating in humanistic activities. These two sets of commandments were meant for completely different things, but there are many similarities as well. The animals made these rules to follow as God did with the Commandments. Both sets of people or animals broke these commandments in many ways. The Jews committed idolatry as the animals broke all these rules one by one. In order to get freedom both the Jews and the Animals had to follow their Commandments just as we do
For example the sixth Catholic Commandment states “thou shall not kill,” (Exodus 20:13) and the Sixth Commandment of Animalism says “no animal shall kill any other.” (Orwell 21) Also a lot of the rules the Animals made has to do with staying or looking as far off from humans as possible. Humans in Animal Farm play the role of sin, as the ten Catholic commandments creates a base for us to use to help with not committing sin. So if in Animal Farm humans play the role of sin the two sets of commandments relate to each other by achieving the common goal of not sinning or as in animal farm not participating in humanistic activities. These two sets of commandments were meant for completely different things, but there are many similarities as well. The animals made these rules to follow as God did with the Commandments. Both sets of people or animals broke these commandments in many ways. The Jews committed idolatry as the animals broke all these rules one by one. In order to get freedom both the Jews and the Animals had to follow their Commandments just as we do