Boxer/ Lower working classes Flashcards
“enormous beast”
DESCRIPTION with connotations of strength to show how working class are the backbone of society
“universally respected”
Was an inspiration to other animals like the worker, Stakhanov, who famously worked over his quota.- allowed him to be manipulated by pigs to inspire more blindly patriotic tools for them
Role
Allegory for the Russian working-class who helped to oust Tsar Nicholas and establish the Soviet Union, but were eventually betrayed by the government under Joseph Stalin.
“our labour tills the soil”
Old major says this but he is referring to the working class
They are the backbone of a nation
“met with much stupidity and apathy “ on the revolution
Non-intellectuals were not as enthusiastic about the revolution as the pigs(intellectuals) and ended up being abused through it by the intellectuals.
ALSO, they were not very informed about it’s original principles and so, they didn’t even realise from the start that the emergence of the pigs as leaders was ,on its own, contrary to Animalism.
“met with much …
stupidity and apathy “ on the revolution
“always at the spot where the work was the hardest”
EMPHASISING ADVERB to reflect Working class contribution to Russia’s growth and development out of patriotism which is also why they could also be exploited easily
“always at the spot …
where the work was the hardest”
“Boxer could not get beyond the letter D”
SATIRICAL representation of how majority of the working class were illiterate or very poorly educated to show to the reader just how grave this issue was in Russia
“I will work harder”
Boxer’s motto- Working class’ tireless contribution to early communist Russian development out of PATRIOTISM
They were fueled by a belief that the working to build a nation for themselves and not a monarchy
Boxer adopts the motto “Napoleon is always right” immediately after Squealer makes “the necessary explanations” on the exile of Snowball
Orwell PLACES the addition of this new motto to /boxer’s mottos right after as an EXAGGERATED REPRESENTATION of the success of propaganda especially amongst naive uneducated masses who begin to believe the lies they are fed and are blinded to their exploitation
“worked like slaves”
This is how the animals are made to work under the new rule of Napoleon by chapter 6
working “Not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings”
Animals reason they are happy while working “like slaves”- COULD be a portrayal of the benefits of a socialist society but could ALSO be for increased EMPHASIS on their naivety as they are still working for humans but new ones (the pigs) though they don’t realise it
“Nothing could have been achieved without Boxer”
PRONOUN places emphasis on his contribution- REPRESENTATION of working class’ contribution to early socialist Russia’s development
Boxer’s mottos are “sufficient answers to all problems”
To uneducated working class, the beliefs of PATRIOTISM and BLIND TRUST in leaders imbibed in them suffice to overlook any problems of injustice or hard labour they experience.
EXTENT OF INDOCTRINATION
It overrides their “vague sense of uneasiness”
“ernomous…
…beast”
As the pigs continuously as break the principles of Animalism, the animals are “conscious of a vague uneasiness”
They never act on the sense of injustice though- Orwell is PORTRAYING how people in Russia did realise to some extent that communism was an unjust system but they never protested due to the extent of their indoctrination to believe:
“Four legs good, two legs bad”- A government not ruled by a monarchy is perfect
“I will work harder”- They must remain patriotic
“Napoleon is always right”- Their leaders are undisputable
“universally…
… respected”
“our…
…labour tills the soil”
“Boxer could…
…not get beyond the letter D”
“Not for…
…a pack of idle, thieving human beings”
“Nothing could…
…have been achieved without Boxer”
