Animal Farm: Boxer Character Analysis

Boxer is a workhorse in the book, ‘Animal Farm’. He is the farm's strongest, most committed and loyal laborer. He is very loving towards the other animals and watches out for them. He has several mottos right through from the beginning of the story that represents his character, such as: "I will work harder." and "Napoleon is always right." This shows that he is naive and rarely suspects anything. Boxer is also quite dumb and can only remember four letters of the alphabet at any time. He is a loyal supporter of Napoleon, listening to everything the so-called leader of the farm says and assumes, mostly without doubt, that everything Napoleon tells the farm animals is true and beneficial, highlighting his motto: "Napoleon is always right.”
In the story, when Boxer thought he had killed a stable-lad, he remorsefully said: “I have no wish to take life, not even human life,” Even though the pigs stated that all the humans were bad, Boxer was sad when one of the farmers got injured in the battle. This shows that the pigs made all the decisions and that the animals did not always believe what the pigs wanted them to believe. This is allegorical because many of the Working Class men treated the Bolsheviks as the ultimate leader and thought that they were right all the time, so they did not have to think for themselves, just like how Boxer followed the pigs’ words even though he felt a different way.
Shortly after the expulsion of Snowball, Boxer said this: “If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.” This is allegorical as Boxer is meant to stand for the Russian proletariat, the powerful but often simple-minded working class. They are naturally drawn to Stalin like how Boxer is to Napoleon, because it seems like they will benefit the most from their new system instead of the old one.
After the first mass executions carried out by Napoleon, Boxer broke the silence by saying: “I do not understand it. I would not have believed that such things could happen on our