The devoted and powerful horse, the tragic hero, whose undying loyalty and support to the farm and in particular to Napoleon is cruelly betrayed. He is the stereotype of the loyalty and hard work in the novel.
Since the novel begins, Boxer engages himself to help the farm for a better future, even though he most of the time does not understand the ideas and principles of pigs. He is a great fighter, and helps a lot the farm when humans attack, but his weak point is that he is very loyal, and the gentleness of his heart is evident when he almost kills a boy while fighting in the Bottle of the Cowshed. He adds tearfully: “I have no wish to take life, not even a human life.” He is against killing, even a human being. He is the bravest from all animals of the farm, and the biggest defender in the Bottle of the Cowshed and the building of the Windmill. The
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In the novel, Boxer has two rules which he adheres. The first is “I will work harder”, which he keeps saying all the time, and it is taken by Orwell from Upton Sinciair’s socialist novel “The Jungle”( 1906). And the second rule is “ Comrade, Napoleon is always right”. Showing that he blindly trusts Napoleon and his decisions.
All animals, including Boxer have been promised a humane retirement. They have been told that after they are old and not able to work anymore, they would be take care of in their senility. But this does not happen with Boxer, just like it did not happen with the veterans and working class of Russia, under the regime of Stalin and Tsar Nicholas II.
Boxer is almost 12 year old, so the time for him to retire is coming, but one month short of that, he falls and gets injured seriously, while working on the rebuilding of the Windmill. When Clover asks him what happened, Boxer
the animals begin to yell for Boxer to escape but he couldn 't, the animals were livid that their leader would send his on people to the
He always obeyed and pushed himself to work with Napoleon’s new world. With words such as “‘I will work harder’!” (Boxer, pg. 29 and 56) and “‘Napoleon is always right’” (Boxer, page 56) Boxer was what many would consider a true soldier or citizen of Animal Farm.
He’s the strong and mighty horse that everyone looked up to for inspiration to keep working. He stayed at the farm knowing that the rebellion against humans was the right decision and wanted peace among everyone. He would do anything to protect the land and wanted no human to take it back.
Surely comrades, you do not want Jones back?”(56). Squealer convinces the animals to stop holding debates in order to keep Jones away, and they do this willingly, giving Napoleon a large advantage over maintaining his status as leader. Squealer’s convincing speeches in support of Napoleon strike a chord with Boxer. Boxer is a loyal and hardworking animal on the farm that the other animals look up to. Boxer comes up with the motto “Napoleon is always right”.
He encouraged the other animals with his strength and inspirational words “I will work harder!” (Orwell 74). Boxer is a much different worker than the other animals on the farm because he motivates the other animals to keep going and not run off. He is determined and loyal when it comes to comrade Napoleon and the work on the farm.
Throughout the play The Crucible, John Proctor shows that he is a tragic hero. Although he is a hero, we see this in both good and bad ways. John is seen as a devil worshipper when he says, “I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face!”(119-120) He says this because he is now being the one accused of having seen the devil and this was his way of responding. It seems to make everyone think that he is evil because he is saying how he has seen that devil and that it was Danforth that he saw.
- Boxer While the animals are living happily on the farm, the humans come back in attempt to retake it. During the fighting, Boxer accidently kills one of the farmhands who used to work on Manor Farm. The other animals try to convince Boxer that killing the boy was a good thing, but Boxer is not okay with the killing. This statement by Boxer encaptures the significance of the farmhand’s death.
Boxer was the first animal to wake up and the last animal to sleep. He worked day and night restlessly under the guidance of Napoleon. He was the greatest supporter of animal farm and Animalism, the ideology that runs the animal farm. However, he had to sacrifice his own animal right for the sake of animal farm and the better life of all of us. Also, he was loyal retainer of Napoleon.
”(p.125 Orwell, Animal Farm) In his word, the animals can see that Boxer really want the windmill plan to be done. In a Sunday morning, Napoleon appear in the meeting and pronounced a short oration in Boxer’s honour. At the end of the speech he said, “Comrade Napoleon is always right.
In this story of Animal Farm, it represents characters and situations that establish a certain time in the Russian Revolution. Also animal farm reflects the Russians and farmer Jones that it represents the Russians Czar. Napoleon represents Joseph Stalin, and Snowball is Leon Trotsky. Boxer serves as an allegory for the Russian who help out to establish the Soviet Union. Animal Farm failed because not all animals are equal.
Napoleon had many methods of control, yet the main one he used has fear. He uses the dogs for fear by scaring anyone who tries to speak out against him, “Suddenly the dogs….let out deep,menacing, growls, and the pigs fell silent.” This excerpt from page 54 shows that if Napoleon doesn't like what someone is saying they won't be talking long. Then he uses boxer till he isn't he doesn't benefit him anymore, “do you not understand what this means? They are taking Boxer to the knackers!”.
When Boxer is put on a truck to be sent to the “hospital”, it is Benjamin who reads that the truck is actually a horse slaughterers truck. He asks the animals if they understand what that means and that he’s being sent to his death. “A cry of horror burst from all the animals. - All the animals followed, crying out at the tops of their voices.” (pg. 122)
Napoleon’s initial desire to rule the Farm grows into a monstrous greed for power which is what brings destruction to the corrupted society of Animal Farm. His foolish pursuit to obtain more increasingly becomes destructive just as the capacity does to increase. The greed has taken over him and tempts him to lie in order to obtain everything he desires. He drives Snowball out of power to keep the power all to himself, separates himself from the commoners to officialise his high status within the Animal Farm, kills Boxer to acquire money for whiskey, and adapts human idiosyncrasies in order to prove that Napoleon and the pigs are more superior and can control the commoners to obtain anything that they
Using the examples of Napoleon and Boxer this essay will discuss the truths of human nature and express the traits of these characters both good and bad including; loyalty and obedience as well as selfishness and greed. Napoleon represents the corrupt political dictators that have been in power before and even after the novel was written. He slowly and subtly put himself into power of the farm and was very manipulative in the way he got there. The animals were always ensured that everything he did was for the good of the farm but as the book goes on Napoleon’s hunger for power is revealed.
He even says he’ll do more to improve the farm, and prevent a situation like this from happening again. With Boxer’s growing popularity, the reader finds that the supreme leader, Napoleon, feels threatened by Boxer. The animals obviously treat Napoleon like a king, because the animals