Symbolism In George Orwell's 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.

When Napoleon becomes the leader of the farm,“Boxer, voiced the general feeling by the 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!” (Orwell 56). As what the quote shows, Boxer is becoming very loyal to Napoleon, ignorant to his corruption. Boxer’s defining trait is his loyalty.

His motto is “If comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.” (pg. 56) This shows that Boxer was being brainwashed into thinking that Napoleon was good. Another topic that lead Boxer being oppressed was that he thought that Napoleon called the vet to come and get him but he really called the knacker. Another quote from the book is “Boxer!

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

Because Boxer is the most powerful strength wise, and is an important asset on the farm. Napoleon is the main leader, and everyone follows him “but the other animals found more inspiration in Boxer’s strength and his never-failing cry of ‘I will work harder,’”(Orwell 74). Boxer was the workhorse who would stay up late to work on their projects and was the most demanding horse. When the animals were maintaining to the crops, Boxer was the one who would put the most effort in. The animals on the farm trusted Boxer because they all knew that he would be the one who will do his best and support them with anything. When Napoleon was accusing Snowball for being against the Animal Farm, Boxer stood up and told against it. Snowball was living at a different farm at the time and yet Boxer was still standing up for him as if he were at his side. Without Boxer, the farm would not have their work done on time and successful. There would be no one who would be confident to stand up

After it was announced that Jones may come back if the animals do not work harder, Boxer adopted the motto, “Napoleon is always right… I will work harder” (Orwell 70). The animals were told that if they are working with Snowball or make one false step, Jones may return, which makes them want to work even harder and do everything Napoleon says. The animals are not educated themselves, so they assume that Napoleon knows what he is doing and is the smartest. Even though the farm was not prospering much, “It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune” (Orwell 100).

Boxer always works harder than any other farm animal, which sets the mood for other farm animals because they see that Boxer is working really hard. Almost all the animals like Boxer because of his personality. But, Napoleon seems threatened by Boxer, because if Boxer ever rebelled on Napoleon, Napoleon was sure to lose because of how many animals would follow Boxer. Boxer could also crush one of the guard dogs, but he chose not to, which shows Napoleon that he will kill if

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’’.

Benjamin was a pessimist in the sense that he believed no one would ever be happy no matter what changed on the farm, that can be seen in this quote: ”Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse-hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.” It is evident that Benjamin was not expecting of change but if he himself used his wisdom to speak up it may have made a difference. His friend was one of the hardest working animals on the farm yet he was sold to the knackers, and killed. his rations were severely decreased.

Boxer inspires many of the animals on the farm to further improve themselves, they look up to him. “ To see him toiling up the slope inch by inch, his breath coming fast, the tips of his hoofs clawing at the ground, and his great sides matted with sweat, filled everyone with admiration” (Orwell 75). Everyone saw Bowers hard work and admired him for it, this was a threat to Napoleon and he did not want any threats around, he did not want any of the animals looking up to Boxer as a leader instead of

Which mechanisms of power that are portrayed in Orwell’s 1945 Animal Farm do the pigs use to gain authority over the other farm animals? An idealistic utopia cannot become reality, because political and social revolutions rarely manage to hold onto the original purpose of the revolution. This idea is represented in Orwell’s Animal Farm, which serves as a literary parallel to the Russian Revolution ("Animal Farm"). Animal Farm revolves around a group speaking animals, led by pigs, who revolt against their owners and attempt to create a utopia following “animalism”, where every animal is equal and does not follow any of the habits possessed by humans.

In George Orwell’s novelette Animal Farm, he takes historical facts about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union to create an allegorical book about these topics using animals. In the book, we see many similarities between the stories of the Russian Revolution and the animals on Animal Farm. He maintained history throughout his piece but changed a few things so that it would fit the animal theme. One of Orwell’s allegory is the hens surrendering their eggs.

149,469,610 people have been killed by their own communist government. Scary statistic isn't it? But what's more scary is how many people have been hurt by communism. If you want to see what it's like to live in that kind of government you must read Animal Farm. George Orwell’s book Animal Farm is an interesting story of how animals create a communist government to survive after taking over the farm from their farmer, Jones. Animal Farm is a must read because these animals' struggles will cause it’s readers look at governing in a different light and also because it has an interesting use of symbolism.

Though Animal Farm can be considered nothing more than a charming animal fable depicting a doomed rebellion, its origin is actually of a more serious and political nature. It is not only the tale of Napoleon and Animal Farm, but a satire and commentary on that of the Russian Revolution, Stalin and Communism. For a person to gain a true understanding of Orwell's meaning in Animal Farm, it is best that he or she has an understanding of the political parties and history surrounding Communism, Stalin, and the upheaval and fear that followed Stalin's rise to power.

George Orwell’s allegory of the farm animal’s triumph in Animal Farm to the Russian Revolution in both totalitarian manner and results exposes how absolute power destroys equality and results in unfettered totalitarian rule. Orwell’s satire of equality demonstrates a leader’s methods of ostracization of opposing parties and use of propaganda to dominate a society, self-interest infiltrating a role of leadership causing a polity to turn totalitarian, and ability to force harsh conditions on the working class. George Orwell’s Animal Farm unveils the reality of spiteful human nature and corrupt societies through insightful characterizations and conveys negligent leaders’ oppression of oblivious followers through apprehensive moods and interwoven symbolism.