Everyone has their own weakness, and that one Achilles heel is looked upon as a mere imperfection. While a horse cannot have the complex emotions humans have, it still has a vulnerability. Boxer the horse is the most noble, selfless, and resilient character in the book Animal Farm. Boxer did not take a rest, that was his one imperfection. In the eyes of an average person that is not a problem, but a trait like that is what most people look for. In a communist society no matter how hard someone works they still get paid the same. To Boxer that is the impairment that makes him the most noble, resilient, and selfless.
Boxer was an inspiration to every animal on the farm. After the windmill was destroyed this was stated, (Orwell 74). “The other animals found more inspiration in
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Boxer’s strength and never failing to cry ‘I will work harder!’” By doing this boxer is inspiring every animal to neglect the fact that the windmill they had worked so hard on, got annihilated.
This also shows the resilience of Boxer, this also displays that not only can he inspire everyone else with his hard work, but also inspire himself to work even harder. The speech given by Squealer was completely ignored, and the animals looked to Boxers nebulous saying. After the battle of the windmill, where the windmill got destroyed for the second time, Boxer got shot in the leg with a shotgun. Although he is at the worst of times the book still displays that he still shows anguish towards his brethren: (106). “The pellets under the skin of boxer’s leg smarted painfully. He saw ahead of him the heavy labor of rebuilding the windmill.” Even though the windmill was just destroyed and boxer had just been shot, he still thought of the others thriving with the gift of electricity. Boxer, by doing this, is the most selfless creature in the farm. He doesn’t care about the pain and horrible paroxysm he will accost. When Boxer was being sent away to the knackers Benjamin, the old cantankerous mule, was so disconsolate that he was dying came galloping to tell the others. (121). “They were astonished to see Benjamin come galloping from the direction of
the farm buildings, braying at the top of his voice. It was the first time that they had ever seen Benjamin excited-indeed it was the first time that anyone had seen him gallop!” Benjamin was very unenthusiastic, and was never excited about anything. Boxer was such an inspiration that it had set off a new Benjamin, and the fact that Boxer was about to die made Benjamin even more exuberant. This appearance shows that Boxer was such a big stimulation, that it caused one of the grumpiest, most lethargic animals on the farm to metamorph into a brand new passionate butterfly. Also this exclaims that Boxer is extremely noble. Oxford Dictionary defines noble as, “Having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals.” Without these qualities Boxer would not be as respected and looked up to as he is. Boxer’s hard work and determination was a threat to Napoleon. While animals were confessing the conspiracies they supposedly did with Snowball, Napoleon ordered his dogs to attacked Boxer. (83)“To the amazement of everyone three dogs flung themselves at Boxer.” Napoleon is obviously envious and threatened by the hard work and respect the animals gave to Boxer and not Napoleon. All Napoleon wants to do is hog the power. By doing this Boxer is a direct target for napoleon to get rid of. Boxer through the book did not take advantage of the animals in the way Napoleon did. Doing this Boxer was noble because of the fact that even though his strength and leadership were exceptional compared compared to Napoleon’s He still didn't take advantage of the animals like Napoleon did. In conclusion Boxer was an inspiration to every animal on the farm, and Boxer was a direct threat to Napoleon due to his leadership. While weaknesses make anyone look weak, they also make anyone look strong. By overcoming weakness and hardship the strength of a character is born no matter how contradicting so regular capitalist society they are. Without an imperfection there is only perfection, and perfection is as impossible as the whelm of every imperfection. Boxer was his own weakness the fact that he worked hard until he couldn't makes him his only defect. Many people live their whole lives trying to fight and overcome their weakness, but in the end is is the weakness that makes them them. Work Cited: Orwell, George. Animal Farm. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
The animals in the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, admire the horse’s, Boxer, extreme work ethic and they follow his lead. However, Boxer is not very smart and is completely oblivious to Napoleon’s wrong-doing which is one of the main reasons for his continuous leader position on the farm. Boxer’s solution to everything is to work harder, and then everything will magically turn out right.
Animals that are hard working, don’t see the bad things tat are happening around them, yet all they're doing is fueling the fire. In chapter 6 it states “ Boxer would never listen to me. His two slogans, “ I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right,” seemed answers to all problems.” Boxer is not the sharpest tool in the shed, so he misses a few things, but him doing this is keeping him safe and on Napoleon`s good side. Also when certain animals have an opinion on something, mot of them don’t care and they ignore it & carry on with their day.
Often time, authors use different tactics to develop a characterization. The book,“Animal Farm” by George Orwell, is a story about farm animals overthrowing the farmer and taking control of the farm. Through both direct and indirect characterization, Orwell’s depiction of Boxer, satirically representing the Russian working- class, is shown to be dumb, hard working, and dedicated.
= 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. = ==
one of the leaders of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin like Napoleon was not a good speaker, cared deeply about power, and he killed all that opposed him. They both were extremely great at promising wonderful lies. One huge conflict that I discovered while reading this novel is over power, the human beings versus the animals on the farm and later in the story the animals versus the other animals. The animals and the humans are always fighting each other. The pigs were trying to convince other animals not to take orders from the humans. Old Major which was the original creator of the animal revolution says “Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever”. Old Major basically is the one who in my opinion created the idea of all humans being their major problem. Old Major also says “There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word- Man”. This is a perfect example of how he strongly believes that their life would be much better without human beings. He continues to try to convince the animals how terrible humans are by saying “Man is the only creature who consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all animals”. Old Major sang this song to the farm animals “Beasts of England!
In the novella Animal Farm by George Orwell one of the main protagonists is Boxer. Boxer ia a horse, but in history, he was supposed to symbolize the Proletariat or Working Class. Throughout the book he was a hard worker, but definitely had more brawn than brains. Boxer’s Role in the book had a big impact on the animals and the story in general, it showed the working class how shortsighted they were being when it came to their very own government.
The cynical act of deceiving the less clever is, in fact, the gracious act of conveying a “truth” to the same latter group. This ideal is constantly formulated by a central government for the sole purpose of maintaining the classes at the status quo. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, an allegorical satirical novel, the subject of Orwell’s satire is the byproduct of a revolution with Communist roots symbolized by a rebellion on a farm by the inhabited creatures. Two pigs from the animals, Snowball and Napoleon, self-establish themselves over the rest of their animals due to their superior intelligence. Being symbols of actual leaders, Snowball being Leon Trotsky while Napoleon being Joseph Stalin, history tells the reader what will occur. Therefore, after Napoleon ultimately usurps Snowball’s power by driving him out, Napoleon ultimately commences, like Stalin, the deterioration of the lives of the masses. Similar to Stalin utilizing propaganda, Napoleon uses another pig, Squealer, eloquent in speech to address the rest of the animals and convey the “party line”. The ability of Squealer to twist the actual meaning of Napoleon’s actions are through misinforming and employing pathos on the rest; but the lack of intelligence and memory from the animals also contributes to the distortion of facts.
Often times in a communist society, a leader’s use of language can lead to abuse of power. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the farm leaders, the pigs, use unknown language, invoke scare tactics, and create specific laws, thereby enabling them to control other animals, to suit their greedy desires, and to perform actions outside their realm of power. Because of the pigs’ use of broad language, implementation of scare tactics, and creation and manipulation of laws, they are able to get away with avoiding laws and convincing other animals into believing untrue stories and lies that are beneficial to the pigs.
Conformity is a double edge sword because it’s out come could be good but at times bad. Conformity is when rules and laws are set so there for people to follow them. In the book Animal Farm Napoleon was the boss of all the animals. Nonconformity is the opposite of conformity it is when someone set rules or laws and you don’t follow them. The group N.W.A they all had a thing towards the cops because the cops did lot of thing towards blacks and they didn’t like it so they started and big movement.
Boxer works hard by not allowing his hurt hoof to get in the way of the rebuilding of the windmill. He always devotes time into work and never gives up on something until it is finished. Boxer doesn’t care what obstacles are in the way of his work, he will climb over that mountain and get whatever job he has to do done. He may have split his hoof, but he was treated with antibiotics and continued to work each day. He never cared how much agony he was in, he just kept on working. He was not intelligent in doing so because he never actually healed his hoof. His hard work without intelligence would lead to a devastating downfall. “At such times his lips were seen to form the words, I will work harder, he had no voice left” (Page 111). Boxer is a non-intelligent, overworked animal according to Orwell’s description of him. When Boxer “had no voice left” shows an animal that has been overworked and abused. An animal that has no life left ...
Boxer was the total opposite of Rosa Parks. He did anything he had to to stay on the good side of Napoleon. He did a lot more than the other animals did and didn't get recognized for it. He was hurt and still did his best to work because this was his duty even when the others didn't do theirs. He never ever questioned Napoleon. He just obeyed him and did whatever he was told. He was very loyal to him.
The animals in awe of the difficulty of telling from which was man or pig, they went back to the barn, gathered in the barn and were all about to go into their own stalls until the slightly blind Clover said, “Friends please wait.” The animals stopped and looked at Clover that was giving a saddened expression that made most of the animals walk over except for the hens and roosters walked to the chicken coop with their baby chicks following except for two chicks that walked over to Clover. Clover looked at all the animals gather and gave a serious stern look, “there was once a time when this barn brought joy to me and all of the others on this barn. It wasn’t when the humans were in charge or when Napoleon became our leader. Snowball on the other hand was the leader that actually didn’t become a dictator of this farm and wanted greatness for all and not just for the pigs and
In chapter nine, Boxer’s death had a large impact on the animals that had known him. Even Benjamin who appears to be least affected by the turn of events is changed by the death of Boxer, “Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer around the muzzle, and since Boxer’s death, more morose taciturn than ever.”
Boxer: Is a cart-horse, who has incredible strength, dedication and loyalty to show the type of character he portrays to be also shown in the quote “an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together”. He is one who can listen to ideas but isn’t able to think of them himself as he just admires other people’s revealed when he commented, “If comrade napoleon says it, it must be”.
...timately he was rewarded with a painful death in the hands of human beings. His loyalty and obedience were seen worthless by the greedy tyrants like Napoleon. Nonetheless, if Boxer admitted the real wicked nature of Napoleon, made the other animals understand the reality, and acted against Napoleon’s cruelty, he could have lived for some more years and he could have protected their dream from becoming a totalitarian nightmare.