What Does Animal Farm Say About Human Nature

Our human nature is what defines us as humans: our feelings, actions and mental characteristics. George Orwell’s allegory of Animal Farm intently explores the truths lie of human nature and human existence. Animal Farm has many links to what the Bible states about human nature: Humans were made in the image of God, humans can rule the rest of creation and humans have the ability to surpass themselves whereas animals were made to be ruled by humans. The characters that Orwell writes about are flat, two dimensional characters. We only see one side of them. As humans we can sometimes hide one of our ‘dimensions’ (feelings), these characteristics are created by George Orwell. They are archetypes; Boxer is given the characteristics of a loyal worker
Some people can be thought of as idealists. They envision what they can do for the wider community rather than the inner community that they are always surrounded with. Snowball embodies this human aspect of human nature. He does not think about what he can do to improve his lifestyle but rather what he can do to help the other fellow animals. “Snowball who had studied an old book of Julius Caesar's campaigns...was in charge of the defensive operations”(pg.26). Snowball was the only one willing to read old books in the farmhouse to improve the defence and win the battle that was awaiting them. He doesn’t wear clothes, he organised meetings for every animal to have his/her say in the matter at hand, he invented the songs (‘Beasts of England’) to sing after any battle/revolution, he came up with the chant for everyone to remember(especially the sheep) ‘four legs good, two legs bad’, he invented a fair
This work that is put in can sometimes be overlooked by the boss or leader but there is still people that are quiet achievers that do not work for the admiration. Boxer is the quiet achiever of Animal Farm. He asked the roosters to wake him up early to work, he works back late, and he was all the muscle in the revolution. He is also a loyal worker and a loyal follower, he adopts the motto of ' I will work harder' and 'Napoleon is always right'. Now no-one else adopted this motto and had such a strong amount of support for the new leader. Napoleon did not see this support and did not care when Boxer fell off the cliff and the giant stone was on him, the only thing he did was call the knackers and arrange his death for a small helpful reward.”Late one evening, in the summer , a sudden rumour ran around the farm that something had happened to Boxer...About a quarter of an hour Squealer appeared... He said that Comrade Napoleon had learned with the very deepest distress of this misfortune to one of the most loyal workers on the farm, and was already making arrangements to send Boxer to be treated at the hospital at Willingdon”(pg.80). Now Squealer on the farm always spread lies that Comrade Napoleon said, and all the animals were very suspicious about this as well. Napoleon does not think or see that Boxer is the most loyal worker, he does not care about loyalty he just cares whether