How George Orwell Creates Sympathy for Boxer in Animal Farm

How George Orwell Creates Sympathy for Boxer in Animal Farm

Orwell evokes sympathy from the audience for Boxer using a variety of

successful methods. Firstly, he does this by the presentation of his

intellect, and also by the characterisation of his personality and

attributes. The Author additionally uses the way Boxer is treated, as

well as with the setting, and the contrast with other animals, to make

the reader empathise with the situation he is in. Finally he uses

Boxer's lack of self-knowledge along with his death to show his

naivety towards believing in an altruistic existence.

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The author creates sympathy for Boxer by the fact that he is not very

clever, and is quickly taken advantage of by the pigs because of his

trustworthy nature. This is show by Boxer's personal mantra, "I will

work harder," which indicates that he believes in animalism and that

there is something better than Jones and is prepared to work

incredibly hard, and push himself as far as he can, because he

believes that if he does life will be better for everyone.

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His other motto is , "Napoleon is always right." This also is greatly

taken advantage of by the pigs because it shows how trustworthy Boxer

is. The word, "always," suggests that whatever Napoleon says, Boxer

will agree with it because he trusts that Napoleon would not trick

him. Orwell makes us feel sympathetic, because he lets us see that

Napoleon and the pigs are really corrupt and are using Boxer for their

own means, but Boxer doesn't realise becaus...

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...and overthrown Napoleon and the pigs. This is an allegory

of the Zealous people being able to overthrow Stalin and the royal

guards if they realised communism had been corrupted.

I think Orwell created sympathy for Boxer to get across to the readers

how he felt about the way the Zealous people of Russia were treated by

the Stalin and the guards. I think George Orwell thought Communism was

good as an ideal for running a country, but that it would always

struggle to work, as within egalitarian principles, leaders emerge,

assuming ever-greater powers. This leads to corruption, and little

better or worse that the previous system, only 'dressed differently.'

He also tries to get across the sympathy for the death of Boxer,

equals the Sympathy for the last chance of Communism, which is when

the Zealous people were killed.