The devoted and powerful horse, the tragic hero, whose undying loyalty and support to the farm and in particular to Napoleon is cruelly betrayed. He is the stereotype of the loyalty and hard work in the novel.
Since the novel begins, Boxer engages himself to help the farm for a better future, even though he most of the time does not understand the ideas and principles of pigs. He is a great fighter, and helps a lot the farm when humans attack, but his weak point is that he is very loyal, and the gentleness of his heart is evident when he almost kills a boy while fighting in the Bottle of the Cowshed. He adds tearfully: “I have no wish to take life, not even a human life.” He is against killing, even a human being. He is the bravest from all animals of the farm, and the biggest defender in the Bottle of the Cowshed and the building of the Windmill. The
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In the novel, Boxer has two rules which he adheres. The first is “I will work harder”, which he keeps saying all the time, and it is taken by Orwell from Upton Sinciair’s socialist novel “The Jungle”( 1906). And the second rule is “ Comrade, Napoleon is always right”. Showing that he blindly trusts Napoleon and his decisions.
All animals, including Boxer have been promised a humane retirement. They have been told that after they are old and not able to work anymore, they would be take care of in their senility. But this does not happen with Boxer, just like it did not happen with the veterans and working class of Russia, under the regime of Stalin and Tsar Nicholas II.
Boxer is almost 12 year old, so the time for him to retire is coming, but one month short of that, he falls and gets injured seriously, while working on the rebuilding of the Windmill. When Clover asks him what happened, Boxer