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The Seven Commandments of Animal Farm   The Seven Commandments are the staple fiber principles of animate beingism worked out by the pigs and described origin in ally as incurable laws by which the animals were to live. The Seven Commandments were indite on the barn wall for all animals to see and read if they could. The original Commandments are     1. Whatever goes on both legs is an enemy. 2. Whatever goes on four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3. No animal shall wear clothes. 4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. 5. No animal shall drink alcohol. 6. No animal shall kill any former(a) animal. 7. All animals are equal.     Almost immediately later onwards the Commandments are written the cows have to be milked. The milk they produce is taken by the pigs exclusively so the seventh Commandment seems to be undermined from the very beginning. When the pigs overly start claiming the windfall apples, Squealer explains that they are non taking them as privilege but because science has shown that milk and apples are necessary for the pigs learning ability work. This at least satisfies the animals that they are equal to the pigs but it does not fool the reader.   The first two Commandments are subtly broken in the first years of Animal Farm but there is no attempt to rewrite them. Snowball, the hero of the Battle of the Cowshed, becomes an enemy of the farm after his expulsion by Napoleon, while the resumption of trade via Mr Whymper causes some countersign but, as Squealer points out, trade was not banned in theme and Mr Whymper is not treated as a friend.   The first alteration to the Commandments comes after the pigs move back into the farmhouse. The ban on sleeping in beds is changed in Napoleons favour by the addition of the words with sheets. At this point in the history of the farm the pigs do not quite have decent power to do what they like and Squealer is forced to change the Commandments to hold ou t new circumstances. But sleeping in beds is a minor study compared to murder, and the next alteration to the Commandments is far more shocking. After the failures of the winter and the let out of the first windmill, the pigs use Snowball as scapegoat.