Boxer In George Orwell's Animal Farm

“Napoleon is always right.” These are Boxer’s favorite words. In the George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, Boxer lives with these words as one of his two mottos. In Animal Farm, Boxer and some of the other farm animals are not as intelligent as the pigs. The pigs took advantage of their knowledge and were controlling the non-intelligent like Boxer and the sheep.

Boxer’s qualities directly relate to the Soviets working class due to his intelligence level. It is established that Boxer is not the most academic oriented animal in the farm as stated in the text, “Boxer could not get beyond the letter D” (Orwell, 33). The working class during this era were not given educational opportunities which prevented them from achieving a higher intelligence and better jobs in society. However, this is an is an enormous flaw in both parties because it allows someone like Stalin or Napoleon to take control over them and allow them not to think for themselves which happens in both Animal Farm and

Another example of Boxer’s strong personality in times of hardship is the night in which the executions of the animals that admitted to having been deceitful to their fellow comrades by taking Snowball’s side took place and Boxer stated that to overcome the faults amongst the farm’s animals, he was going to work harder.

In chapter 9 Boxer dies working and he was a hard worker. Boxer believed everything that napoleon said was good so his main mottoes were “I will work harder” and “Comrade napoleon is always right.” Because these mottoes served Napoleon good, Napoleon decided to tell the animals to adapt Boxer's mottoes and they did because they wanted to be as good as Boxer was. There are more examples of propaganda used in Animal Farm and it is one of the biggest techniques used by Napoleon to gain power in the Animal Farm.

Orwell continues to represent class on the farm through the character of Boxer. Boxer represents the lower, working class who were uneducated and inferior to the nobles and government, in this case the pigs and dogs. ‘I will work harder.’ and ‘Napoleon is always right.’ his mottos show just how loyal and hard-working he was. Boxer would work and work until he was at the point of collapsing and this is just what the working class of Russia would do, slaving away their today for a better tomorrow. Boxer is key in building the windmill, which represents change, the change that Boxer wants to bring to the farm through his hard work and determination. Boxer may have had all these credits but what Orwell uses Boxer to say is that no matter how physically strong you are, it’s nothing compared to knowledge and mental strength. When Napoleon tells Boxer he is to retire after he collapsed whilst working, Boxer naively gets on the van that is not really to take him to where he will retire, but to the knackers’ yard to be killed. Even though Boxer was so driven and committed in what he did, he wasn’t able to spot that Napoleon was tricking him because he wasn’t nearly as well educated as Napoleon. So to cut a long story short, the fact that Boxer was poorly educated eventually lead to his demise.

Boxer is a character that contributes a lot to the success of animal farm. He is the one that at first helped the farm with his muscles and his motto ‘’I will work harder’’, because the muscles of Boxer and the cleverness of the pigs was the solution to all problems at the beginning (p.11). Boxer is, in jones’s times, strong as two horses. But, after the rebellion he is considered strong as three horses (p.11). However, his low capacity mind didn’t evolve in the story. He is always following blindly the orders of his leaders. At the beginning he follows Napoleon and snowball. But after Napoleon’s dictatorship begins, He follows Napoleon. Boxer is following Napoleon so blindly that he even made another motto that is ‘’Napoleon is always right’’.

He starts off, just working a little harder and getting up only 20 minutes early than the rest of the farm, before his passing, he is rising a whole hour before and staying up hours later than the other animals. We get so drawn to his passion for the farm and working hard towards the windmill because these are noble and just actions. George Orwell then has him finally collapse from overworking and later the exterminators show up to seal the deal on his passing away. This loss of Boxer shows us how communism can affect those we love by hurting them, taking them away from us and using all of their time, or even killing

rid of. Not only that but he was even sold, so the pigs could buy

Animal Farm is a prime example of devotion and the loyalty that is vital for success. Boxer is a selfless hard-working horse that displays genuine loyalty to the rebellion willing to do anything for the better of his newfound family. Boxer adopts a new personal motto of “I will work harder” static from the beginning of the novel to his death (murder). Boxer is unwavering in his devotion. Even when the windmill is destroyed and it is time for Boxer’s long waited retirement he continues to strive forward and push his body to the max showing loyalty to Napoleon time and time again, reflecting his other motto “Napoleon is always right”. The point of view used throughout the novel is third person omniscient. This allows for an overall

Orwell uses imagery to depict Boxer’s loyalty to Napoleon and his dullness. “His two slogans, ‘I will work harder’ and ‘Napoleon is always right,’ seemed to him a sufficient answer to all his problems” (Orwell 61). In other words, Boxer motivates himself by saying things like “Napoleon is always right,” and “I will work harder.” Boxer never questions anything on the farm, because apparently to him ,”Napoleon is always right.” This is evidence of the pigs’ brainwashing of the animals, because animals like Boxer always believe the pigs no matter what they

Boxer is a very important animal at the animal farm who takes the weight of the problems and puts them on himself and always claims he will work harder. Boxer, the workhorse on the farm, has always worked hard and pushes himself to be better, and to do more. This made all the animals look up to him, more than their actual leader at times. He takes responsibilities that are not even his and excels. Animal Farm by George Orwell shows the many ways the Boxer is an important virtue to the farm and to his friends.

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.

When the farm animals drive Mr. Jones, their abusive and negligent farmer, Boxer displays his physical strength during the Battle of Cowshed. While defending Animal Farm, Boxer helps ambush the attacking humans. The narrator writes, “But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion” (Orwell 42). In this passage, Boxer demonstrates a loyalty and eagerness to protect for his farm. Additionally, readers observe his considerable might. However, during the conflict, Boxer accidentally harms a stable boy. Boxer mournfully says, “He is dead… Who will believe that I did not do this on purpose… I have no wish to take life, not even human life” (42-43). Even though Boxer has the physical ability to be a great warrior, he would rather not hurt

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

Author, George Orwell, creates Boxer the represent the Russian Working Class. The Russian Working Class believed in the good intentions of Stalin, just like Boxer believed in the good intentions of Napoleon. Thus began a new motto Boxer began to live by,