Political Allegory In George Orwell's Animal Farm

This novel is based on political allegory from the author’s experience George Orwell had seen during the Revolution and the War. The characters are similar to those whom he knew and were described as of how they were in the fights. Throughout the book, my understandings of the three characters Boxer, Mollie and Napoleon were of different personalities. There were a lot of conflicts both internal and external and there were uses of elements of satire to blend politics and art. To me the book was giving a fair idea of how the powerful and intelligent life treated the low and unintelligent ones. The setting of Animal Farm was in England and the different animals that were used to symbolize persons in the book were mainly pigs, horses …show more content…
Jones is forced off the farm. Boxer was not intelligent enough to see that there was more to worry about that there was a new species “the pigs” in control. Even though Boxer was a very hardworking animal on the farm he was respected for his tremendous powers of work and he and Benjamin were close friends on the farm. Because of his animal friends, he did a lot of work for the purpose of animal Farm, by getting up earlier on mornings and doing extra work. For the first ever, Boxer began to have some unclearly perception of Squealer, because he began saying that the unfaithful Snowball will soon be executed, soon he found out that those remarks came from Napoleon. During the Battle of the Windmill, Boxer got injured and collapsed during his work of reconstructing the windmill, yet his thoughts were not of himself but of the work. Boxer always thought that he will retire along with his friend Benjamin. Even when he was being led to his death, he was told of his terrible fate by Benjamin and Clover that it was because of Napoleon greed for power that he chose to sell him for profit, using the money to buy himself whiskey. Although the fact that Boxer had died for something that he did not deserve, because he was the hardest working animal on the farm that deserved much more. At the end, where he was in the carriage taken to his death that Boxer soon realized that he was being