In Animal Farm, what does Boxer's death symbolize?
Boxer the horse himself represents the exploited working class with all their qualities of dedication, loyalty, and huge capacity for labour. He also, like the proletariat, had a naive trust in the dominant pigs. Being unintelligent, he was unable to recognise even the blatant forms of injustice and corruption of Napoleon, the same way the working class was blindly loyal to the government. His pitiful death at Napoleon’s hands symbolises the pigs’ betrayal. When Boxer collapsed and fell ill after overworking himself over the windmill, Napoleon claimed to have taken Boxer to a veterinary surgeon in town, when in reality he sold him to an animal slaughterer and used the resulting money to buy himself whiskey. Later, he told the animals that the surgeons did everything they could, but it did not work. His importance is also shown as after his death, the older animals miss him, and the farm is not quite the same.
Who does Mr.Whymper represent in Animal Farm?
Mr. Whymper is a man hired by Napoleon for the public relations of Animal Farm to human society. Whymper is used as a go-between to trade with human society for things the animals can't produce on their own: at first this is a legitimate need because the animals can't manufacture their own windmill components, but eventually Whymper is used to procure luxuries like alcohol for the pigs.
Can you help me understanding Animal Farm?
I was reading Animal Farm and I need to find connections between the book and the events in Russian History which are represented by the book. If you have read the book, please help me!
How does the story of animal farm end?
In the book, the story ends with the animals seeing the pigs and humans playing cards together, and the can't tell the difference. This is after a long period of apparent "wealth and prosperity" that was in reality at time of hard work, lack of food and war. This is from Spark Notes: "Years pass on Animal Farm, and the pigs become more and more like human beings—walking upright, carrying whips, and wearing clothes. Eventually, the seven principles of Animalism, known as the Seven Commandments and inscribed on the side of the barn, become reduced to a single principle reading “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Napoleon entertains a human farmer named Mr. Pilkington at a dinner and declares his intent to ally himself with the human farmers against the laboring classes of both the human and animal communities. He also changes the name of Animal Farm back to the Manor Farm, claiming that this title is the “correct” one. Looking in at the party of elites through the farmhouse window, the common animals can no longer tell which are the pigs and which are the human beings. " The movie is slightly different, such as the card game not occuring, but it is mostly the same.
What does each character in Animal Farm represent?
I loved this artwork by Johnathan Chadwick which actually dress some of the character as what they are an allegory for:Mr. Fredrick - Trader, trator, opportunistHitlerOld Major the Pig - Old, Wise, Experienced, DignifiedMarx / LenenSnowball the Pig - Brave leader, loyal to AnimalismLeon / TrotskyNapoleon the Pig - Mean, manipulative, power hungryStalinSquealer the Porker - Two-faced, persuasive, manipulativeThe Russian MediaBoxer the Clivesdale - Hard working, simpleProletariat / Working ClassMister Jones the Famer - Lazy, outdated, uselessRussian CzarBenjamin the Donkey - Loyal, stubbornTime / proofSome more which didn't make his wall:Mollie the Mare (Horse) - Silly, Stupid, Vein, shallowCapitalismVicious Dogs - Loyal to Napolian, ruthlessStalin’s Secret PoliceAnimalism - The Theory created from Old Major’s speechCommunism from MarxMoses the Raven - Sneaky, Dreamer, Sweet-talkerReligionManor Farm - the setting of the storyOld Russia
How is Animal Farm a political novel?
NO UNNECESSARY CLICK AIT OR OTHER PHOTOS INCLUDED TO IMPROVISE CLARITY OF THE ANSWERIt explains the soviet union.The writer was an socialist that knew how Stalin abused communism.The summary.An old moose named the old proposed an new idea about animals aka communism and them makes a hymm poet.The drunkard farm owner Mr Jones aka tsar Nicholas gets thrown away by a revolution made by animals aka red revolution and communism gets established.Some rules gets established like “animals never act like humans”The two pigs become leaders napoleon aka Stalin and snowball aka Trotsky.Trotsky proposes and idea of an electric mill for everyone while Stalin proposes increasing food protudction.After some time the Stalin wants his rule to be powerful then he secretly demolishes the electric mill.Stalin gets 9 dog puppies then trains them to be his loyal soldiers Aka police.Ttosky gets kicked his ass kicked away to the outside by the police force never to be heard again and Stalin and simply gives a middle finger to elections by removing vote system.In that time the always hard working mole boxer Aka the working class gets sold to an glue factory (İn glue factories the animals get killed and get their bodies become glue) and the squealer aka the Pravda (a Stalin led pro government newspaper) tells the story as “he went to the animal heaven” thus abusing religion by using it to make fake stories etc.There are animals that misses the good old tsar days Aka the pro tsar people, the capitalists that trade with the humans and people that knows the fact that every revolution ends where it begin (like a car engine piston) aka the geniuses.The rules gets detoriated by them getting changed by changing little words thus without anybody noticing them and the hymm gets replaced by stalin.Towards the end, the neighboring farm owner freidreick aka Hitler and an another farm named something that I don't remember aka NATO gets into close contact with Stalin as an unspoken trade agreement stuff etc.Towards the end Stalin ignores the rules by bipedal walking and drinking liquor while playing card switch other animals and watch from the outside seeing how he became no different from tsar .P. S I am not a commie.