Who Is Boxer's Ambition In Animal Farm

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.

When questions aroused about how in the Battle of Cowshed Comrade Napoleon wasn't as brave as they all thought, the only solution was to push the blame to Snowball. The pigs thought that if they explained to the lower animals how Snowball was against them, no one would look to Napoleon for the blame anymore. " That was our mistake, comrade. For we know now----it is all written down in the secret documents that we have found----that in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom" (80). If the animals were smarter and had better memories, they could have remembered this battle more vividly then they wouldn't have seen what the pigs were trying to accomplish. They would have seen how Squealer was manipulating their minds into thinking that Comrade Napoleon was the hero, Snowball was the enemy and he himself had been in on the human's plan with Jones. Not only did the pigs say Snowball betrayed Animal Farm, but they also suggested that he created mischief on the farm while the animals slept at night.

Countless times, the book shows that the pigs lied and manipulated the others. They were able do this simply because the rest of the animals turned a blind eye towards the things they saw and were told. In the beginning, all the animals were so happy that they had won the rebellion and gotten rid of Mr. Jones, they did not realize that the newly communist society was slowly changing and not for the better. On page 32, it states “The reading and writing classes, however, were a great success. By the autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree. As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly.” As you can see, all the animals were educated – at least to some extent – but the pigs were by far the smartest. This shows that the other animals were able to at least recognize letters and words. While the animals were somewhat literate, they did not take the time to better educate themselves. This caused them to remain blind to the fact that Napoleon was slowly creating a group of sentinels and surreptitiously planning to get rid of Snowball. Napoleon took advantage of the fact that it had been decided that the pigs knew better when it came to certain things. For example, he took puppies away from their mother. He promised to educate them well. Napoleon seemed to be acting benevolent but

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

On Animal Farm all animals are equal and all try to pull their weight, but some animals are more equal than others. And many other animals don’t work and some work more than others. Boxer is a hard working horse who is kind but he is very persuaded with the ideas of Napoleon. The sheep of Animal Farm are stupid and blind in following the pigs and just do what the pigs ask them to do. Napoleon develops a secret police out of nine puppies he stole and those nine puppies were taught in the way of Napoleon, who wants the dogs to be loyal and enforce his ideas. All of these animals are being manipulated by Napoleon and making choices so they can help others or help themselves.

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

The livestock are naive, because they are uneducated. They are uneducated, because the pigs limit the amount of information that is shared with them. The horse, Boxer, is so brainwashed by Napoleon that he make the phrase “Napoleon is always right” his motto. Several examples of the animals’ uneducation would be in the following sentences. “‘That was part of the arrangement!’ cried Squealer. ‘Jones shot only grazed him! I could show you this in his own writing, if you could read.’” (Orwell, 81). This is Squealer’s attempt to make the animals disloyal to Snowball. He claims he has proof of betrayal, but conveniently, none of the animals are able to vouch for this. Another example is in this paragraph:“The commandment read, ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.’ Somehow or another, the last two words had slipped out of the animals’ memory.” (Orwell, 91). You see here that the undereducation of the animals leads them to think that they were just wrong and that Napoleon and Squealer had been right all along.

The allegorical novel Animal Farm, was published by George Orwell on August 17, 1754. In the novel the animals represent the Russian Revolution War. The moral of the story is there are animals that live on a farm and Mr. Jones the farmer is the owner. Mr. Jones doesn’t take good care of the animals so this causes the animals to rebel against him. Mr. Jones ends up dying and Napoleon, the boar end up being in charge and doesn’t do a very good job. Boxer, the male horse in the story basically does everything he can to save the farm. In the story Boxer displays that he is loyal, determination, and heroic.

The pigs were able to bend the animals at their will with simple words, empty promises of more food and early retirement kept the animals doing more and receiving less while the leaders did less and received more. Another example of the leaders making the farm miserable would be squealer using propaganda. According to the text “ “There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones’s day. On Sunday mornings Squealer... would read out to them the lists of figures proving that the production of every class of foodstuff had increased by two hundred per cent, three hundred per cent, or five hundred per cent, as the case may be. The animals saw no reason to disbelieve him, especially as they could no longer remember very clearly what conditions had been like before the rebellion” ( Orwell 92). The leaders began to think for the followers altering their thoughts so they would never be suspicious of the leaders.

Throughout the book of Animal Farm the theme of leadership and corruption is continuous. The animal’s who have the biggest part in both of these major themes are the pigs. Napoleon, for example, takes over as the leader in the beginning of the book and later his leadership methods turn corruptive.

In the satiric novel entitled Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the character Boxer, a remarkable horse, represents the working class members of society who rebel against Farmer Jones to gain freedom. However, the utopia that they fought for was not realized, and they are manipulated by the pigs; in turn, they find themselves no better off than they started. Boxer is hard-working, loyal, and strong, and he sacrifices his life for the others on the farm. Without Boxer, Animal Farm would have never progressed as far as it did.

Finally, Orwell uses different stylistic elements to enhance elements of manipulation in the story. George Orwell uses dramatic irony to show the impact manipulation has on the animals. Boxer gets hurt and is being taken to the horse slaughterer. Squealer reassures the animals that Boxer is just going to the hospital to heal and will return back to Animal Farm healthier than ever shortly. This dramatic irony is being used to ‘manipulate’ the other animals. Since Squealer is a pig, he is already raked above the others and given absolute power. It turns out that Boxer was in fact taken to a “Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler.” However, the other animals could not comprehend this due to their lack of literacy skills. Next, Orwell uses verbal irony to enhance the way manipulation is portrayed in the story. All animals are given certain rules that they are required to follow in the beginning/making of Animal Farm. For example, on the first day of Animal Farm, one of the rules they were given was “No animal shall sleep in a bed.”

Some think just because you work harder than everyone else that you will be treated better and taken care of. In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell their was a character named Boxer who was a very hard worker and a great horse. Throughout the book Boxer was represented as a hard worker, yet he was seen as a threat by some, and how he was betrayed at the end of the books builds up a strong conflict.

In the book, this is another way Squealer, Napoleon, or any other pigs are brainwashing the other animals to think all animals are still equal. The truth is that over time the pigs broke every rule one by one, ending back where they started when Jones was running the farm. The original commandment was “All animals are equal” which was later changed to “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS”. This drives the plot to the conclusion that the pigs have all the power now, without any of the other animals noticing. This is similar to when Squealer uses propaganda and his skills of convincing to make al the animals think that the living conditions are better now, than they were when Jones

The pigs are able to manipulate the animals on the farm using distortion and bad logic because the animals are quick to believe anything and will trust whatever the pigs say. Propagandists often have to change information that could disturb their opinions to make it appeal to an audience (Stults). Propaganda will often be illogical if the propagandist thinks that their ideas are believable (PBS). Because few of the farm animals are highly knowledgeable, the pigs take the milk from the cows and the windfall apples in Chapter 3 and the other animals barely question them. In fact, the pigs say it is for the animals’ own good that they drink the milk and eat the apples because it helps them run the farm and they actually dislike them (Orwell 36). The animals are foolish and do not argue with Squealer’s explanation for drinking the milk and eating the apples. They are so incredibly lacking in common sense that they do not notice the pigs control of the farm and the pigs are able to have a way to take more food than the other animals. After the van takes Boxer, the pigs tell the animals a fake story to conceal that the sell him. When Squealer tells the animals that even though Boxer is picked up in the knacker wagon, it takes him to the hospital, the animals believe him. Benjamin the