remember very clearly what conditions had been like before the Rebellion (89). The pigs used their intelligence to persuade the animals into thinking that life had become what they had expected it to be before the rebellion. Since the majority of the animals couldn't read, they believed that whatever that paper said was true. No one else read it but a pig and every animal believed it. Even if someone remembered life when Jones had run the farm, they couldn't remember if it was better now or then, their memories weren't very good. Soon some animals noticed a small change in their commandments. On a moonlit night, the animals heard a crashing sound. They had found Squealer sprawled out on the ground with a paintbrush in his hand and the commandments dripping with paint. A few days later, Muriel had noticed something different about the commandments that she didn't recall from her memory. "But a few days later Murielnoticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was 'No animal shall drink alcohol,' but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: 'No animal shall drink alcohol to excess'"(103). This had occurred in other laws also, and yet no one questioned it. No one questioned the fact that Squealer was caught red handed by every animal on the farm and still no one did anything. The animals had somewhat of a grip on reality, but as soon as Squealer explained to them what were right and what was wrong that feeling of uncertainty was dismissed because of their lack of intelligence. One of the rules that stood firm was that any animal that was on two legs is an enemy but the pigs soon broke that rule also. When years passed, no one could remember the old days before the rebellion. Soon the pigs were walking on two legs and wearing man's clothing. "And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came ...
