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In Animal Farm, it is ironic that the pigs created the Seven Commandments as the basis of their society, Animalism, but eventually disregarded those principles and evolved into the things they despised most, the humans. The evolution of the pigs into human-like creatures was gradual, starting out with more minor changes to their philosophy. Some of these initial changes that went against their Seven Commandments were pigs sleeping in the beds of Mr. Jones's old farmhouse, drinking alcohol, and killing other animals, like the time when Napoleon brutally murdered many animals for their communications with Snowball. Later on came the more drastic changes to the Seven Commandments. Originally inscribed as the first commandment was "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy." In this story, we can see this commandment being disregarded when Napoleon comes into contact with Mr. Frederick to sell a pile of lumber to him. Also, it is evident that the pigs's beliefs have changed when they are spotted walking on two feet in the end of the story. All of the other animals are taken aback by this disobeying of Animalism. Even with all of these alterations to the Seven Commandments, the most prominent is when they change the last commandment to "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." This change from a socialistic society, where all are equal, to a dictatorship where the pigs are in charge of everyone else shows the final step that the pigs take in totally disregarding the Seven Commandments, and adopting a human way of

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