In the story entitled Animal Farm by George Orwell there is a character that is a horse named Boxer, he represents the Russian workforce, the story is an allegory of the Russian Revolution. Boxer is a protective animal and will go to the extremes to protect his fellow animals on Animal Farm. Not only is Boxer a protective animal he is also a very diligent worker that will work to the max. However, Boxer’s main character trait that not many animals on the farm have, but he does is loyalty. Boxer is defined by these character traits which are being protective, diligent, and loyal on the farm. Boxer is a protective animal that will and has gone to extremes to protect the animals on the farm. For example, “His very first blow took a stable-lad from Foxwood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud,” (14). This quote shows how Boxer has killed man, but also how Boxer can go to extremes to protect the animals. Also Boxer uses his strength as advantage to …show more content…
First, “... “If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.” And from then on adopted the maxim, “Napoleon is always right,” (18). Boxer is a loyal animal that whoever his master is he will accept it and not start a fuss. Uniquely Boxer is different by this trait of loyalty which defines him because once Napoleon became the new leader he accepted it and kept on working hard. In like manner, “After his hoof had healed up, Boxer worked harder than ever. Indeed, all the animals worked like slaves that year,” (36-37). The quote shows that Boxer is loyal to Napoleon because he started to work even harder that ever. On the same token Boxer proves his loyalty by working even harder than ever right after having a hoof injury. All in all, Boxer has many great character traits that define him, but his loyalty defines him above all else because not anyone can be
“The time had been when a few kicks from Boxer's hoofs would have smashed the van to matchwood. But alas! His strength had left him; and in a few moments the sound of drumming hoofs grew fainter and died away.” This quote is explaining that boxer is getting sold. This does not connect to Roosevelt's quote because boxer is a very hard worker on the farm and he is very loyal to Napoleon and then at the end of the book he is
The author George Orwell captures characteristics in all of the animals and relate them to individuals who corrupt our society today as well as the civilians who has to live with the aftermath of the corruption. Growing up in England during the early 1900’s and being surrounded by the unfair class system really inspired him to compose the short novel “Animal Farm” (Yabroff). George Orwell was a very unique character, he was not afraid to point out the flaws of society with help of his writing. He was born june 25, 1903 in Motihari, India. Orwell 's mother brought him and his sister to england one year after he was born.
In the story Boxer says, “‘I will work harder!’—which he adopted as his personal motto” (Orwell 29). This quote describes how Boxer always perceives and works as hard as he can during his life. He wants to keep everyone alive and do that as he motivates himself to working harder and not giving up, even though his body tells him to quit. Another quote showing Boxer’s hard dedication from the book says, “He made an arrangement with one of the cockerels to call him in the morning half an hour earlier than anyone else, and would put in some volunteer labor at whatever seemed to be most needed, before the regular day’s work” (Orwell 29). This quote is tells how he’s working harder and even looks like he wants to kill himself because of the amount of dedication he puts into his
He encouraged the other animals with his strength and inspirational words “I will work harder!” (Orwell 74). Boxer is a much different worker than the other animals on the farm because he motivates the other animals to keep going and not run off. He is determined and loyal when it comes to comrade Napoleon and the work on the farm.
Even though Boxer is one of the least intelligent animals on the farm, he has the most morality. Beginning from this action, Boxer develops into the purest character in the story. After reading the entire story, this short sentiment impacted me more than anything else. Boxer is the physically strongest farm animal, but he only wants to use his strength to help the animals, not to kill. Even though Boxer is more than capable of killing most people, he values all life and refuses to kill again.
Boxer is one of the many animals in this novel that was treated with great inequality, even though he was known for his hard work, loyalty, and determination. “... He had made an arrangement with one of the cockerels to call him in the mornings half an hour earlier than anyone else, and would put in some volunteer labor at whatever seemed to be most needed, before the regular day's work began. his answer to every problem, every setback, was ‘I will work harder!’ which he adopted as his personal motto” (Orwell 20).
Boxer’s loyalty to Napoleon was very strong but, if you notice, his loyalty is to Napoleon. Napoleon would blame everything on Snowball because he wanted to be the perfect leader and Squealer, his secretary, brainwash all of the other animals. “Do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!”(Orwell 63).
Boxer was the first animal to wake up and the last animal to sleep. He worked day and night restlessly under the guidance of Napoleon. He was the greatest supporter of animal farm and Animalism, the ideology that runs the animal farm. However, he had to sacrifice his own animal right for the sake of animal farm and the better life of all of us. Also, he was loyal retainer of Napoleon.
At the heart of a seemingly simple, unassuming novella lie political issues that occurred in Russia during and after the Russian Revolution in 1917. George Orwell’s allegorical ‘masterpiece’ as some would say, stems from his own opinions and detestation of the class divide. He shows that an egalitarian society is unachievable, when some characters that exercise power within Animal Farm use forms of both psychological warfare and physical threats in order to keep the ‘lesser’ animals under their control in order to maintain their society which supposedly follows the principles of Animalism; that ‘all animals are equal’. The pigs employ various tactics and express ways of thinking that convince the animals that they are better off than they had
In this story of Animal Farm, it represents characters and situations that establish a certain time in the Russian Revolution. Also animal farm reflects the Russians and farmer Jones that it represents the Russians Czar. Napoleon represents Joseph Stalin, and Snowball is Leon Trotsky. Boxer serves as an allegory for the Russian who help out to establish the Soviet Union. Animal Farm failed because not all animals are equal.
When first reading George Orwell’s Animal Farm, one might assume it to be a simple narrative about Farm Animals. However, through closer analysis, you begin to see the allegorical connections and satire of the work. By drawing parallels to certain major events and individuals from the Russian Revolution, Orwell is able to provide a political commentary about the harsh conditions caused by the Revolution. In George Orwell 's Animal Farm, he uses Napoleon, Snowball, and Mr. Jones to show the allegorical connections, as well as its satirical motives.
Animal Farm uses animal’s personalities and actions to represent the political figures and events during the Russian Revolution. Napoleon signifies Joseph Stalin because both of them betrayed commonly agreed upon principles and deceived their followers to gain power. Moses and Sugarcandy Mountain represent the Russian Orthodox Church. Napoleon and the animals thought Moses and his stories of Sugarcandy Mountain was foolish and the animals rejected his preaching, just as Joseph Stalin and his followers reject the Russian Orthodox Church. Boxer symbolises the common people during the Russian Revolution.
The greed of power will always blind the leader’s judgment. Napoleon was not excluded in this matter as he often takes advantages knowing that the animals cannot read or write. Although there are many examples to support this fact, but one stands out the most, Boxer’s ending. As can be seen throughout the story, Boxer is the one who worked hard for that farm’s welfare from the beginning to the end. His never-failing cry of ‘I will work harder’ often inspired the rest of animals to work hard despite facing failures such as destruction of the windmill for the second time.
Boxer, Clover, and Mollie are horses that represents the working class. Boxer portrays the proletariat workers because they are unskilled laborers. He is a cart-horse who has incredible strength, dedication, and loyalty towards Animal Farm. Boxer is not the most intelligent animal on the farm, but without him, nothing on the farm would be accomplished. Clover is a female cart-horse who is a friend of Boxer’s
Using the examples of Napoleon and Boxer this essay will discuss the truths of human nature and express the traits of these characters both good and bad including; loyalty and obedience as well as selfishness and greed. Napoleon represents the corrupt political dictators that have been in power before and even after the novel was written. He slowly and subtly put himself into power of the farm and was very manipulative in the way he got there. The animals were always ensured that everything he did was for the good of the farm but as the book goes on Napoleon’s hunger for power is revealed.