Explain how the single commandment in Chapter 10 of Animal Farm by George Orwell sums up the attitude of the pigs that enable them to break all...

In Chapter Ten of Animal Farmby George Orwell, Clover lets out a terrifying neigh, and the other animals come running. They are appalled when they see the pigs walking on two legs, which is clearly against the seven commandments written upon the barn wall. Clover asks Benjamin to read the commandments to her because something looks different. He obliges her, reading the one commandment that is now there: "All animals are equal. But some...

In Chapter Ten of Animal Farm by George Orwell, Clover lets out a terrifying neigh, and the other animals come running. They are appalled when they see the pigs walking on two legs, which is clearly against the seven commandments written upon the barn wall. Clover asks Benjamin to read the commandments to her because something looks different. He obliges her, reading the one commandment that is now there: "All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others" (Orwell 133). 

The pigs have become like humans. They walk on two legs, drink, smoke, and even have begun to wear clothes. This new commandment shows that the pigs feel they are superior to the other animals. They are in charge and get the best food, drink, etc. They do not have to work the long hours the other animals do, pretending that their work is more important and takes more intelligence, yet nobody ever sees them do any real work. They have become the oppressors and are quite content with their role. The farm has come full circle, and the animals are just as bad off as they ever were--all the animals that is, except for the pigs.