Animal Farm Boxer Quotes

George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm shows how the animals have many important roles with a horse named Boxer being the animal that mostly does labor and hard work due to his strength. The former ruler in the novel was a farmer named Jones, he worked the animals and gave them little food. The animals eventually attacked him and overthrew him from the position and appointed the smartest which are the pigs to lead them. All animals were given a job and roles to do in the novel. One in particular was Boxer, his role was pretty simple to explain. He’s the strong and mighty horse that everyone looked up to for inspiration to keep working. He stayed at the farm knowing that the rebellion against humans was the right decision and wanted peace among everyone. He would do anything to protect the land and wanted no human to take it back.

In the story Boxer says, “‘I will work harder!’—which he adopted as his personal motto” (Orwell 29). This quote describes how Boxer always perceives and works as hard as he can during his life. He wants to keep everyone alive and do that as he motivates himself to working harder and not giving up, even though his body tells him to quit. Another quote showing Boxer’s hard dedication from the book says, “He made an arrangement with one of the cockerels to call him in the morning half an hour earlier than anyone else, and would put in some volunteer labor at whatever seemed to be most needed, before the regular day’s work” (Orwell 29). This quote is tells how he’s working harder and even looks like he wants to kill himself because of the amount of dedication he puts into his