Boxer’s Death Analysis Response
1. How does Boxer's death reveal the total failure of Animalism and how does Orwell drive home this lesson through his account?
In the novella, Animal Farm, Boxer’s death reveals the total failure of Animalism and Orwell drives home his lesson through the pessimistic ending of the book. The main reason that Animalism failed was because of the power corrupt leader, Napoleon. His cold heartedness and ruthlessness is clearly shown through Boxer’s death. Boxer is a hard-working horse that gives in his all in everything, and is extremely loyal to Napoleon as one of his maxims is, “ Napoleon is always right.” And, because of working too hard, he got hurt, and “ his great muscles were not quite what they had once been.” This quote indicates that Boxer is getting useless, and Napoleon betrayed Boxer and sent him to the knackers’ shortly after that. The act of sending Boxer to death shows how Napoleon doesn’t really
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Because of his greed, he changed the ideas and rules of Animalism for his need, so that he doesn’t have to follow the original rules. At this point, he is becoming more and more corrupted, and is blinded by power, causing him to completely change Animalism. Boxer’s death can also be seen as Animal Farm’s downfall, as his death reveals Napoleon’s greed and his act of completely destroying Animalism. Towards the end of the novella, animals got even smaller rations of food than they did under Jones’ rule before, and this pessimistic ending of the animals working like slaves under the tyranny of the pigs shows one of the lesson that