Boxer is a fictional character, a horse, present in George Orwell's Animal Farm. He is the farm's most hard-working and loyal worker. Boxer serves as an allegory for the Russian working class who helped to oust the Tsar and establish the Soviet Union, but were eventually betrayed by the Stalinists.
Boxer fights very bravely in the Battle of the Cowshed, and the Battle of the Windmill, but is upset when he thinks he has killed a stable lad when, i...
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Boxer
Fictional Character
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Book Character
Appears In Books
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