Animal Farm Characters
...gs. Boxer kept alive the likely hood of the windmill, which without him would be impossible. Near the end, Boxer’s strength left him, dragging a load of stones towards the windmill when the burden became too much for him, pulling him to the ground. Though Boxer recovered he would be no use in Napoleon’s eyes and he was put to death. NAPOLEON Your impression of him Napoleon unlike some of the other pigs is not a very persuasive speaker, nor as clever as Snowball, though his ambition for power lets nothing get in his way and is ruthless with his opponents. Napoleon is very selfish and does not at all care for the benefits of Animal Farm and all of his decisions are done for his own well-being. Key quotations Napoleon is often quoted by Boxer as always being right and the pigs, especially squealer convince the animals that all of Napoleon’s decisions are for the better of their well-being and try to create the image for him that he is always taking on extra work to make sure that it is achieved. His involvement Napoleon is the decision maker of the farm once he had rid of Snowball. He gradually takes away the animal’s freedom so that it is unnoticeable they ever had any. He betrays Boxer once he has lost his strength by killing him and in the end becomes know more different than Mr. Jones, engaging in human activity and becoming equal among them. SNOWBALL Your impression Snowball is one of the intelligent pigs of the farm and a very good speaker often making long and persuasiv...