What is animalism according to Animal Farm? 1. What is Animalism 2.What do you think is the purpose of the text based on what you are reading? (Animal...

Since you
are only supposed to ask one question here, I will answer the first one and try to incorporate
as many answers as possible.  Animalism is the version of communism/socialist espoused by .  Old
Major describes a community where animals are in charge and not subordinate to humans.  Another
feature of animalism is that all animals are equal.  There are seven commandments:

THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS

 1. Whatever goes upon two
legs is an enemy.

2. Whatever goes upon 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 other animal.

7. All animals are equal.

These are the basic tenets of animalism.  They are intended to keep
the animals from being corrupted by man, and to develop a society where all animals are
equal.

Over time, animalism is corrupted.  The pigs take control of the farm
and lord over the other animals, and they slowly chip away at the tenets of animalism by
changing the commandments until they are all gone and there is only one.

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL

BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE
EQUAL THAN OTHERS

In other words, the pigs are in charge
and all of the other animals are equally subordinate to them.