Boxer In Animal Farm

In George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm, Boxer is portrayed as a hardworking horse who wants the best for the farm by always working hard. Throughout the novella, Boxer display characteristics of being a hardworking, loyal, and humble horse. His mottos, “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right,” shows his dedication and loyalty to the growth of Animal Farm. However, his strengths of being hardworking and loyal are also his weaknesses. Boxer is easily manipulated by the pigs who profits off of his work for Animal Farm and his loyalty to Napoleon, which led to his untimely death in Animal Farm. Throughout the novella, Boxer is admired by the other animals for being a hard worker. In chapter three the author writes, “Boxer was the admiration …show more content…
His loyalty to the farm, and to Napoleon, is his driving force to always work hard. It is unclear as to why he displays a strong sense of loyalty to the farm and Napoleon, but the author describes Boxer to be unable to think of himself. “Their most faithful disciples were the two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover. These two had great difficulty in thinking anything out for themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers, they absorbed everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other animals by simple arguments.” Boxer had a sense of loyalty to the pigs to persuade the other animals of the benefits of Animalism. The ideologies of Animalism can be symbolized as the beliefs of Socialism. Boxer’s belief that all animals should become comrades to help overthrow the oppressors to provide a better world for the animals. It allows the readers to understand why Boxer was loyal to the pigs and to Animal farm when it was established. His strong sense of equality and better opportunities for the animals was a pure desire unlike Snowball’s and Napoleon’s, who each vied for …show more content…
After Snowball was forced out of Animal Farm, Boxer adopted a new motto: “Napoleon is always right.” He decided to put all his trust and opinions in favor of Napoleon because he thought Napoleon was in favor of promoting the belief of Animalism. However, throughout the novella, Boxer was manipulated multiple times which has led him to be unable to fight the good fight for the rest of the animals. An example of Boxer being manipulated was when he decided to believe that the execution of the animals in chapter seven was justified because Napoleon was right. Boxer blindly accepted all of the decisions made by