Discuss Old Major's commandments as it relates to human failures in Animal Farm.

I think that Old Major's commandments recognize human
beings are creatures of deliberate cruelty.  Old Major's commandments speak to the
corrupting nature of human beings, construing human beings as forces that are only
capable of destruction or cruelty and little else that is positive.  The commandments of
Animalism are ideas that ensure that Animals never resemble the corruptibility of human
beings.  Along these lines is the idea that power corrupts or changes human beings for
the worst.  Part of the commandments' attraction to the animals is that they stress the
ideas that power for humans is a source of their evil because they become evil through
the use of political power.  In this light, Old Major's commandments speak to the idea
that perfection is possible and that the Animals can set right what the humans have made
wrong.