Snowball's Loyalty In Animal Farm

Lastly, in Animal Farm, Boxer is a very loyal character and had proved his loyalties to what he thinks will be best for him in many forms. For example: “‘Suppose you had decided to follow Snowball, with his moonshine of windmills-Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal?’ ‘He [Snowball] fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed,’ said somebody. ‘Bravery is not enough,’ said Squealer. ‘Loyalty and obedience are more important. And as to the Battle of the Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball’s part in it was much exaggerated. Discipline, comrades, iron discipline! That is the watchword for today. One false step, and our enemies would be upon us. Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?’

Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying: ‘If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.’ And from then on he adopted the maxim, ‘Napoleon is always right,’ in addition to his private motto of ‘I will work harder.’” (37). In this piece from Animal Farm, Boxer mentioned how everything Napoleon says is right, and how the animals must follow Napoleon, since he is always right. Boxer is brainwashed to believe Napoleon is good for the farm, and since Boxer is very well respected on the farm the other animals may be led to believe this as well, but by Boxer saying these few sentences it makes the reader realize how he is a loyal follower of Napoleon and how much loyalty he has towards what Napoleon says and does and the loyalty he has to what he thinks will help [Napoleon] and be best for him. Boxer is loyal to his fellow friends on the farm, as well as to Napoleon: “But it was a slow, laborious process. Frequently it took a whole day of exhausting effort to drag a single boulder to the top of the quarry, and sometimes when it was pushed over the edge it failed to

Another example of Boxer being loyal to Napoleon is when Napoleon’s dogs tried to attack Boxer and he could have very easily killed them: “Four days later, in the late afternoon, Napoleon ordered all the animals to assemble in the yard. When they were all gathered together, Napoleon emerged from the farmhouse, wearing both his medals (for he had recently awarded himself "Animal Hero, First Class," and "Animal Hero, Second Class"), with his nine huge dogs frisking round him and uttering growls that sent shivers down all the animals' spines. They all cowered silently in their places, seeming to know in advance that some terrible thing was about to happen. Napoleon stood sternly surveying his audience; then he uttered a high-pitched whimper. Immediately the dogs bounded forward, seized four of the pigs by the ear and dragged them, squealing with pain and terror, to Napoleon's feet. The pigs' ears were bleeding, the dogs had tasted blood, and for a few moments they appeared to go quite