Animal Farm

This message was also circulated around the farm after the Boxer incident. Boxer, a strong horse, had fallen ill and was taken to the “hospital” where he had died. In truth, Napoleon had actually arranged for Boxer to be sold to the glue factory. Squealer told all the animals that Napoleon had, out of the kindness of his heart, paid for all of Boxer’s expensive medicines without a thought. The other animals believed this and viewed Napoleon as a kind leader who cared for them all. This encouraged them to obey Napoleon without a slightest doubt. This ultimately led to Napoleon achieving a greater control of Animal Farm.

By now the responder clearly realises that the strong relationship between Boxer and Napoleon is obviously a negative one. It saddens the responder and invites their empathy to find Boxer to be so oblivious to what is going on around him and at the same time his level of incomprehension creates a feeling of slight frustration in a sympathetic type of sense. A strong feeling of dislike is formed towards Napoleon as he so easily controls Boxer, forcing him to do such tough, punishing labour as he is aware that Boxer is extremely loyal to his superiors and happily prepared to complete all set tasks. Boxer and the other animals fall victim to the pigs’ cunning ways, but besides the easily convinced sheep and Boxer, the other animals are aware of this but are too frightened or cowardly to put a stop to it, for fear of being accused of treachery and then executed.

As soon as the revolution starts, Boxer is more devoted than ever to the farm. At the Battle of the Cowshed, Boxer is trying to prove his loyalty to the farm by defending the animals against a stable boy with kicking him with his hoof. “I will work harder.”(Orwell 25)The quote reveals his hard work and devotion to other animals and the farm. Though Boxer is very strong, he is also very naïve. The pigs bossed him around, being blindly loyal to Napoleon. “Napoleon is always right”(Orwell 48) When he says this, it demonstrates that he does not understand that the pigs are using him. He believes that everything Napoleon says is just. While others are trying to learn how to read Boxer does not feel the need he only wants to work harder for the good of the animal farm. Unfortunately, at the end of the book, he is so worn down that he cannot work anymore, so the pigs make the decision to send him to be slaughtered. At this point Boxer realizes that pigs have used him and was not loyal to the animals like he was. Boxer represents the Russian working-class in the Soviet

Boxer and Napoleon are two very different characters; they are not similar in any way. Boxer cares about the animals and would do anything for them and Napoleon only seems to care about himself and thinks of the animals as slaves. The animals on the farm seem to respect Boxer very highly but they are terrified of Napoleon and his bodyguards. The animals, because of their respect for Boxer, would do anything for him out of their own good will, but the only reason that they might do anything for Napoleon is because they know if they don't, Napoleon will do something to them, or maybe not give them any food. Although for Boxer this is not true because he is a gullible character and trusts Napoleon with his life and would do anything for him.

Animal Farm written by George Orwell is an animal fable happens in a farm where animals start building a communism society, but end up being totalitarianism, hinting obliquely at the communists in the real world. The gaps between pigs and other common animals, demonstrate the theme that the corruption of power appears when majority is ruled. The intelligence superior allows the pigs placing themselves at a position which is closer to the power and which is more easily to corrupt. The inability to question the authorization makes the other common animals becoming the naïve working class who suffers the corrupting influence of power. The nature of pigs, greed, is the source of their undying lust for ultimate power. At the end, the

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” That was when the animals knew the pig’s use of propaganda was so effective. Before the animals discovered the corruptness of the pigs, the animals of Manor Farm in England, irritated with the ways of life and how they are being treated, decided to start a revolution. The smartest of the animals, the pigs, took control of the farm while the other animals worked. Through the deception of the pigs, they changed the rules of the farm to better accommodate themselves. George Orwell’s historical literature work, Animal Farm, is a political allegory to the Russian Revolution. Orwell tries to convey

Animal Farm, written by George Orwell in 1943 is one of the greatest allegories the world has ever seen. This allegory about the Russian Revolution is delivered to the audience in a story about a diverse group of animals on a farm in England who use the words of an old pig to come up with the concept of ‘Animalism’ and rebel against their human master and begin to run the farm themselves. In the development of their supposed utopia, several problems arise and a dystopic reality sets in. by using the techniques of negative characterisation, anthropomorphism and dystopia, Orwell explores the ideas of power and control through manipulation and through this positions the audience to understand that the characteristics of greed, manipulation and violence are animalistic qualities which make us less than human.

It must be due to some fault in ourselves. The solution, as I see it, is to work harder” (94). Boxer’s statement is the most thought-provoking, considering that he is the most loyal and innocent out of all the animals. Boxer, as well as the rest of the farm, are brainwashed to a point when they start blaming themselves for Napoleon’s cruelty. Yet, he believes that the rest of the animals and himself are at fault for their own misery.

After being told that Boxer would be taken to a safe place by Napoleon, he was taken to a slaughter house, “They are taking Boxer to the knacker’s!” (Orwell 123). If the animals had taken matters into their own hands, Boxer would have been protected. He would have not lost his life simply because Napoleon told a lie. Finally, Orwell writes how Boxer murdered a human because he told that it was the right thing to have a rebellion.

Napoleon betrays his own principles time and time again for his own benefit. When Boxer the horse overworks himself and his lung collapses, Squealer, the main propaganda of Napoleons regime notifies everyone that Boxer is going to be taken into a veterinary hospital for recovery. However, the animals begin to realise that Boxer is instead being taken away to be slaughtered, Boxer tries to escape when he finds out the harsh truth, but is too fatigued from overworking himself. Squealer reappears at the farm to mitigate the outcry on the farm regarding Boxer’s whereabouts. He tells them that they have misunderstood the situation and that despite the veterinarian’s actions, nothing they did could save Boxer’s life. Napoleon’s corrupt ideas of betrayal

Animal Farm, by George Orwell, satirizes the breakdown of political ideology and the misuse of power, in the ingenious form of a beast fable. The main characters are animals but their failings are all too human. They begin with an idealistic attempt to form a new society, liberated from the tyranny of humans and founded on the principle of equality and freedom for everyone, but it all goes wrong as the pigs take over. Backed up by the brute power of the dogs, they appropriate all manner of comforts and even luxuries for themselves, while reducing the other animals to the same condition of slavery that they suffered under humans. Animal Farm is an animal satire through which Orwell indirectly attacks the Russian Communism, on Stalinism. Through a humorous and effective animal allegory, Orwell directs his satiric attack on the events of the Russian Revolution and on the totalitarian regime.

In fact, to show his faith and trust in Napoleon’s means to save the farm, Boxer adopts the adage, “‘If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right,’” which he applies to himself for the rest of his life (18). Boxer trusts Napoleon and believes that his intentions are good, therefore he stays a devoted supporter of the pig’s role as the leader of Animal Farm. Another reason that Boxer holds his trust in Napoleon is because his mind, along with the minds of the other animals, has been manipulated by the pigs to make them believe that whatever they do, is for the benefit of both the farm and the animals on it. Furthermore, after pushing himself beyond his limit and, in turn, getting injured, “Boxer had made it a point of honour not to let it be seen that he was in pain,” (34). This illustrates that Boxer can be trusted to carry out his work no matter what, even when wounded.

Napoleon also started out on Animal Farm by having the animals believe in him to be a good ruler of the farm. But Napoleon betrayed them just like Assad betrayed Syria. Napoleon made the animals work extremely hard on the farm and in the end they didn't receive a rational amount of food they had once had. Boxer was the biggest animal on the farm, he was a horse and had the motto to always work harder and that Napoleon is always right! Boxer never betrays Napoleon, he always would put in extra hours of work even when not needed to do so.

Boxer was a very important character to the book, mostly because he did a huge amount of the work on the farm and he always had his mind set on working harder. He never turned his back on Napoleon because he always told himself that Napoleon was always right and he refused to believe anything else. All of the other animals looked up to Boxer throughout the book and it showed the most when he fell and got injured. When Boxer started getting older and weaker, he kept pushing himself to the max because he was so dedicated to Napoleon and improving the farm. The other animals told him that he should take rests once in

Boxer is a strong, hardworking, honorable, though not so intelligent, horse. He is trustworthy, loyal, and naïve. So naïve that he believe that everything the pigs or do is virtuous. Boxer’s favorite saying is, “Napoleon is always right”. This proves his devotion and loyalty to napoleon.