What Does Boxer Symbolize The Working Class In Animal Farm

George Orwell wrote the book Animal Farm to provide the reader with an allegory of the Russian Revolution from a farm animal’s point of view. The animals on Farmer Jones’s land banded together to revolt against human-kind, or anything that had two legs. They were successful enough to drive both Farmer Jones and his wife out of their farm house and off of their land, but Farmer Jones is not giving up without a fight. Orwell represented the social classes and influential leaders such as the working class and Joseph Stalin through the characters of Boxer, Napoleon, Squealer, Farmer Jones, Snowball, and the Dogs. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the character of Boxer symbolized the proletariat, the working class, and was portrayed as a hard working, strong, and respectable and trustworthy horse.

We see an example of this in chapter three which states, “He had always been a hard worker even in Jones time , but now he seemed more like three horses than one; there were days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders.” This direct statement is telling the reader that Boxer always has and always will be a hard worker, even during a time of opposition and neglect. Another example is, “from morning to night he was pushing and pulling, always at the spot where the work was the hardest.”(ch.3) Boxer never left anything unfinished. If there was a tough job to be done, Boxer was always the first volunteer. The final example of this characteristic is in chapter three when Boxer told the pigs to call him into work every morning half an hour earlier than everyone else and the fact that on top of all his regular duties around Animal Farm, he put in volunteer labor doing whatever seemed to be the most needed. He did this to keep the workload low for the rest of the