Animal Farm Chapter 9 Analysis

In this chapter we can see Boxer apart having split his hoofs in the Battle OF THE Windmill he insit n working harder t built another windmill. Boxer adopted his personal motto “I will work harder!” (Orwell 18) after the first harvest following the rebellion. This was his motto throughout the book until he was sold by the pigs. He did not know that Napoleon was taking advantage of him and he did not know his fate so he continued to work harder without questioning Napoleon’s leadership. In the end his qualities of working hard were the ones that killed him. It could be seen as the fault of Boxer himself for his death.
On the whole farm no one worked as hard as him. In the days before Snowball was forced to leave the farm the only thing Boxer had to do was work in the fields but once he left was when Napoleon made everyone work harder on less food. Boxer, as always, worked extra hours on the windmill even after it was destroyed two times. Because of this, even after Boxer died, Napoleon could use him as an example to the other animals and say that they should work as hard as him. The three main qualities of Boxer that bought him to his end were being hard-working, brave and loyal.
Boxer's death in this chapter marks him as the most pathetic of Orwell's creations. Completely brainwashed by Napoleon, he lives (and dies) for the good of the farm — a farm whose leader sells him to a knacker the moment he becomes unfit for work. His naiveté in looking forward to his retirement and pension fulfills the promise of the white line down his face, which Orwell tells the reader in Chapter 1 gives him a "somewhat stupid appearance." Even when stricken and unable to move, Boxer can only consider what his ailment will mean to the windmill, and his pipe dream of retiring with Benjamin and learning "the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet" is as far-flung as Snowball's utopia and Moses' Sugarcandy Mountain.
The beginning of his major problem was when he adopted the maxim “Napoleon is always right.” (Orwell 37). This made it even easier for Napoleon to control boxer and take advantage of him and as usual Boxer’s answer to everything was “I will work harder!” He worked extra hard not caring that he might get injured or sick at any moment. Boxer could have also stopped his death by at least working a little less hard after his foot got injured. Even after “it occurred to him that he was eleven years old and perhaps that his great muscles were not quite what they had once been” (Orwell 71) he kept working on rebuilding the windmill. It was his stupidity that he kept on working harder even after his foot got injured.
Another one of Boxer’s qualities, being brave, was also a part of his demise. When Jones and his men attacked, he did not have to be so brave. He could have just hid like Squealer did and not gotten his foot injured.
Boxer is also one of the most loyal animals on the farm. This was shown when the dogs attack Boxer and he “looked at Napoleon to know whether he should crush the dog to death or let it go.” (Orwell 56) Another thing that showed his loyalty was when Squealer says that Snowball was always in league with Jones. Boxer doesn’t believe that Snowball was a traitor but when Squealer tells him that Napoleon said it Boxer says, “Ah, that is different! If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.” (Orwell 55) Loyalty to the farm was also part of the reason that he went out to fight bravely in both the Battle of the Cowshed and the Battle of the Windmill. Being loyal to animal farm also took a heavy toll on his body because of all the extra work he did to complete the windmill again after it was destroyed two times. he scene in which Boxer is taken to his death is notable for its depiction of a powerless and innocent figure caught in the gears of unforgiving tyranny. Although Boxer tries to kick his way out of the van, his previously incredible strength has been — through days of mindless hard work in the service of his tormentors — reduced to nothing. Only in his last moments does Boxer begin to understand what is happening to him, but the knowledge comes too late for anything to change.
This chapter also continues to display Squealer's manipulation of language for the pigs' political ends.The animals are "glad to believe" Squealer's obvious lies about Boxer's final moments in which he supposedly praised both Animals Farm and Napoleon. This is Squealer's most outrageous and blatant piece of propaganda, and a reader may well wonder why none of the animals raise the slightest suspicion about it. The reason is that they are afraid to do so — afraid of Napoleon and his dogs, of course, but also afraid of probing too deeply into the story and thus upsetting their own consciences. Believing Squealer is easier politically and morally. They can excuse their lack of action by willingly believing Squealer's lies about the owner of the van.
He had good intentions for the farm from the very beginning but Boxer was not smart enough like some animals to understand what was actually happening at the farm so he continued to work harder, so it is nt all his fault. Boxer did not show any of his weaknesses to anyone and worked as if everything was fine. He trusted Napoleon to get him to the hospital after he was injured and he remained loyal to Napoleon until the very end only to be betrayed by him and sold for a crate of whiskey. Eventually these were the qualities that bought him to his end at Animal Farm.