Animal Farm

Animal Farm

“Animalism”

      George Orwell wrote Animal Farm in 1946 to expose the problems of the soviet working class under the totalitarian rule of Josef Stalin. In Orwell’s allegory, there is no better symbol for the proletariat than Boxer who is hard working, kind and gullible, and there is no better representation of the working class existence than Boxer’s life which is short and painful and which ends with his miserable death. Throughout Boxer’s story George Orwell reveals that the soviet working class is over worked and abused and the soviet proletarian life is far from utopian; rather it is hell on earth.

      Before the rebellion when the animals were preparing for the attack boxer’s kinder side comes out. “I have, no wish to take a life, not even a human life, repeated Boxer, and his eyes were full of tears.”(Orwell 56). Boxer did not want to hurt anybody or cause any damage even though it was necessary in order to take control of farm.   In the Soviet Union the citizens also had a problem like that. “Although peasants occasionally rioted and rebelled, they continued to believe the old myths about how much the Tsar loved them.”(Kort). Since that was the only way they have ever been ruled and they heard that the Gov. cared for them so much they start to believe that they care.

      Boxer is hard working and guidable which makes it extremely easy for him to be taken advantaged of.   After the attack and the animals were in control of the farm Boxer
      immediacy shows his dedication to the farm with his hard work. “His answer to every problem every setback, was ‘I will work harder’-which he had adopted as his personal motto.”(Orwell 29). Since Boxer thinks the harder he works the wealthier the farm as a whole. Sadly this is not true. Early after the rebellion when the pigs are not completely in control they still figure out ways to cheat the animals.   “Comrades!” he cried. “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are...