How Does Boxer Change In Animal Farm

How does Boxer change throughout Animal Farm?

Boxer was a strong, fierce, hard-working horse who had a very great reputation, but not a very high intelligence level. Throughout the book, he changes from ignorantly supporting his leader, Comrade Napoleon, to later realizing that his leader does not intend on doing good. However, he still obeys the heartless animals who don’t wish him to be alive.

Boxer was always working hard and obeying the rule that were set in place, and he created a great reputation for himself. He was so perfect that even the other animals strived to have the amount of energy and determination that he had. He mostly lived by his own personal motto which he would say anytime he was distressed. Whether he made a mistake or was being criticized, he wouldn’t fail to break into his motto, “I will work harder!” (29). His enthusiastic and encouraging personal motto was greatly admired by the animals who understood its meaning.

Although Boxer was strong and hard-working, he was not very clever. He usually followed orders without actually thinking about what the intention of the orders were. Also, he

This distrust for his leader mainly started when Napoleon and his right hand pig, Squealer, changed the story of Snowball’s (the opposer of Napoleon) intentions at the Battle of Cowshed (79), a battle fought between animals and humans. Next, Napoleon ordered his dogs to randomly attack Boxer along with other animals for no given reason (83). Boxer was the strongest animal on the farm and Napoleon knew it; therefore, he wanted to get rid of the one animal that could have possibly overridden him. No doubt about it, all of the animals were scared of Boxer. For instance, after Boxer nearly killed a dog by almost crushing him after he was attacked by it (83), an immense amount of fear was put into every