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In society there will always be a working class such as the proletariat working for ahigher class such as the bourgeoisie, but the bourgeoisie will not always care for the proletariats.
In Animal Farm written by George Orwell, Boxer represents the proletariat or working class of
Animal Farm and how they work for people higher up in power; the bourgeoisie, and how the
higher ups do not care for them at all. Boxer also shows how uneducated followers of a political
regime can be supporting something that is harming them. Boxer is uneducated, but very
influential, and an asset, used to convince the other animals that Napoleon is always right and
imagines a greater Animal Farm. Although Boxer empowers Napoleon through his constant
support, he could have also been the one to bring him down, except he can not. Boxer does not
realise that he is being taken advantage of, and when he does realise, the pigs view him as a
liability and do not hesitate to try to assassinate him. In this essay, I will be talking about what
Boxer represents in Animal Farm, how his role mimics the real life roles of the Italian citizens
and how they empowered Mussolini, and how he could have prevented the tyranny of Napoleon.
“Boxer was the admiration of everybody. He had been a hard worker even in Jones’s time,
but now he seemed more like three horses than one;”(Orwell 23). This shows that before the
Rebellion was ever thought of, Boxer was the working class of Animal and Manor Farm. It also
cements the thought of Boxer being hard working in the minds of every animal, even the pigs. The
pigs later take advantage of this to make Boxer and the other animals work using propaganda. The
pigs use Boxer even more after he dies saying “with a reminder of Boxer’s two favourite maxims, ‘I
will work harder’ and ‘Comrade Napoleon is always right’— maxims, he said, which every animal
would do well to adopt as his own.” (Orwell 93). The pigs use the fact of Boxer’s dedication to his
work to promote other animals to work as hard as him. The pigs do not promote this in a mind of
virtue, but instead try to take advantage of Boxer’s dedication to them and apply it on the other
animals.
Boxer doesn’t just show the proletarians of Animal Farm, but also the dangers of being
uneducated and following a political regime. It is shown all throughout the story that Boxer is known
to be kind of stupid, “A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in
fact he was not of first-rate intelligence,” (Orwell 5). Because he always convinces himself that
Napoleon is right and that he himself does not know better, he becomes oblivious to the signs that
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