In this chapter we can observe different levels of literacy among the animals. The pigs tried to teach the other animals but they didn't want to learn. This causes the pigs to be in a way the owners of the truth, since knowledge is power. The seven commandments that were stablished before. 

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

1. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

1. No animal shall wear clothes.

1. No animal shall sleep in a bed.

1. No animal shall drink alcohol.

1. No animal shall kill any other animal.

1. All animals are equal.

rapidly change to a new and only motto. “Four legs good, two legs bad.”. This will have more significance in later chapters. 

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CHAPTER III QUIZ

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Finishing chapter number two, we can see better the parallelism between russia and animal farm. The speech given in this chapter to the other animals bears many similarities to Marx’s Communist Manifesto and to Lenin’s writings. The animals represent the working class of Russia. Boxer and Clover, to give an example show how the working class was loyal, hard working and easily manipulable. The pigs are responsible of the revolution. providing propaganda and religious hope.

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