What Are Boxer's Conformity

Does awareness and knowledge determine whether you show conformity or not? Both Boxer, beloved horse of animal farm, and Galileo Galileo, iconic scientist, both had the opportunity to be aware of the ideas of the leaders in their life. Though both had the opportunity to become aware of the ideas of their leaders, Boxer chose to ignore becoming aware, while Galileo became educated and did not conform to the societal ideas. Conformity comes with the idea of being aware of the of ideas of those around you and if you place yourself to have those same ideas. To begin, Boxer was a conformist in animal farm because he never became aware. He conformed by not questioning the ideas of Napoleon, his leader. Boxer had the opportunity to become aware
Sure, Boxer was seen as strong and worthy of praise while he was well and healthy but he soon failed at doing so. Later on in the allegory Boxer got very ill and unable to work anymore. This was caused by his conformity to Napoleon’s idea of working harder. Boxer often lived by the motto, “Napoleon is never wrong”, which put him in a sticky situation. During his time of being sick, he was sent away by Napoleon to a factory to be made into glue, which Napoleon profited from later on in the novel where it was told that he and the pigs enjoyed cases of whiskey they bought with “mysterious” money. Boxer’s conformity to Napoleon did nothing but hurt him and tire him out in the long
Galileo grew up in a household where his Father, a leader in his life, wanted him to study medicine just to make money but even at the young age of 11 Galileo was a nonconformist went off to a monastery to become a monk instead. Even when conforming to his father;s idea of going to college, Galileo benefitted us all by nonconforming using his knowledge and awareness. At the time of Galileo being in college, religion was prominent in scientific beliefs and a common idea that he went against was the idea that the earth was the center of the universe. Galileo proved the ideas of heliocentrism and geocentrism wrong by stepping outside of the box, and the church, and becoming aware of the science around him. He did not conform to the unthought out ideas of those around him during this