Animal Farm - Blog Posts

People who write novellas must be absolutely going though it bc I've never read a novella that wasnt utterly devastating. These people really have Things to Say and whats more they do it in under 200 pages.

I finished animal farm last night and GOD did boxer break me 😭😭

Humanized animal farm yaoi anyone??? Boxer and Benjamin commie revolution yaoi??? (I’m normal about this book I’m normal about this book I’m normal about this book)

I know I should make a separate blog for my art only but I don’t wannaaaaa

[image description: drawing of human versions of Benjamin and Boxer from Animal Farm by George Orwell. Boxer has an injured leg. behind them there is text that repeatedly says "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". Description end]

THE ANIMATED WHAT WITH WHO VOICING WHO FROM WHAT.

I find it funny that in the new animated Animal Farm movie coming out this year, we will get to see Wallace Wells play a pig (the pig being Squealer)

(Note that the image of Squealer is from the original Animal Farm movie where he was voiced by Maurice Denham)

gang’s all here!

forgot to post this teehee

Who here fw animal farm ocs

Just finished Animal Farm by George Orwell.

I think I'm brain-dead rn.

Another lesson from Animal Farm.

One of my favorite characters from Animal Farm by George Orwell is the character Boxer. Boxer is an enormous Clydesdale and he is the hardest worker on the farm. His work ethic never falters. He inspires the other animals to keep going. Boxer goes above and beyond to do heavier work and longer hours. Every time the windmill is destroyed Boxer gets up earlier, stays out later, works harder on less, determined to see the project to completion. His personal maxims are “I will work harder” and “[Our Leader] is always right”. 

While all the animals work hard to sustain Animal Farm, all while the pigs in charge who sit back and make rules and supervise take the milk, the best apples, and greater food rations than anyone else on the farm. They convince the animals constantly through use of propaganda, manipulation, and fear tactics that their hard work and their reward of very little is patriotic, for the good of all, that they should take pride in how they are sustaining themselves on next to nothing, that they are indeed free animals working for themselves and not for humans - most of the animals are too poorly educated to understand how severely their “freedoms” are being controlled and manipulated. Most of them don’t understand that things are actually *worse off* than before they rebelled against the humans because the pig leaders are so good at manipulating them into nationalism. 

Anyway, that part of it is going off topic from what I want to say about Boxer specifically. 

Boxer ages throughout the story and his ceaseless hard work begins to take a toll but he presses on. His body is beginning to break down but he does not let that stop him. He starts to realize he may not be able to finish the project he has worked so hard to complete before his promised age of retirement. However he begins to look forward to simply completing as much as he can and that soon he will be able to rest in the lovely pasture that the pigs have promised for years to set aside for aging animals. He’ll get better rations. His hard work will be rewarded and he will be taken care of in his latter years.

But one day while Boxer is up before every other animal working hard and straining himself, sides heaving as he struggles to breathe, bloody foam around his muzzle, he collapses and cannot get up. His friend finds him and word is soon all over the farm that Boxer is not doing well.

Maybe Boxer who has been the backbone of the farm, constantly working hard, never giving up, will be allowed to retire early. He will be able to go to the nice pasture. He’ll be able to recover and heal from his work-induced injuries and fatigue. He will be honored and be able to live a nice retirement until he is gone. The pigs (leaders) have promised this after all.

The pigs lied.

The pigs use the pasture for themselves. 

The don’t give a shit. But they promise the animals that they will take care of good ol’ Boxer. They will send him away to a vet so he can get well and soon, Comrades, Boxer will be back and he’ll be healthy and able to continue work.

A truck comes to take Boxer away and his friends are all wishing him well he’s going to get medical help and he’ll be fine! The animals are stupid. They’re not educated. Most of them cannot read. Benjamin the Donkey can read. He sees the terrible words on the side of the truck.

Boxer is not being taken away to be helped. He’s not going to get medical care. He’s not going to get a nice retirement in a promised green pasture with sugar cubes and bright apples to reward him for his toil and contributions. 

Boxer is being taken to the glue factory.

He is of no use to the pigs any longer so they sold him away to his death.

They literally use the profit from Boxer’s body to buy alcohol for themselves and get drunk and have a grand old time if I recall correctly. 

Benjamin begins shouting at the other animals who are smiling and cheering as Boxer is carted off down the lane “FOOLS” and he tells them what the words on the truck say, and they all try to stop them, but it’s too late. Even after Boxer is gone the pigs fabricate a story that Boxer was taken to the vet and died while being as comfortable as possible. The vet had simply purchased the truck from a glue factory and had yet to repaint it. By now a lot of the animals are questioning the pigs, but a lot of them are also still accepting, and by now it is also largely too late.

Does this sound familiar?

By the way this and many other reasons is why I am always telling people to read this book. 

Anyway, Boxer isn’t a horse.

He is the poor and working class who bust their ass, work until they are in pain and exhausted day after day, still barely able to make ends meet, etc. But at least we’re supposed to have healthcare to help us, and social security, and our hard work is what keeps our country together! Working people are the backbone! We are strong! We are gritty and determined and inspirational because we keep going on through our struggles and hardship and wow we are so resilient! One day we can have a shiny red apple that was promised to us if we work hard enough. 

But no… we can’t afford a house, or even to pay bills, the healthcare we should be able to have access to is a lie–it is a glue cart sold to us as medicine. The pasture we may have dreamed of one day has been robbed of us. It’s not there. The Pigs Do Not Give A Fuck. 

They are selling us to the glue factory and people who are uneducated and unaware and taken in by nationalism and propaganda stand by wearing their MAGA hats and cheer as their peers are being taken to slaughter by greedy liars who have built their empire on the backs of working people. 

Read the fucking book and don’t be a fool.

Open your eyes.

Don’t let the Pigs sell you for glue.

All the Boxers and all of us deserve better than this kind of a story.

Fuck the Pigs. 

FUCK the Pigs.

the American public school system sucks hot ass. but thank God I'm English smart and got put in an honors class last year. every year since 7th grade i get a list of summer reading books i need to read and it's organized by class (English 1, 2, 3, 4 honors, AP eng lit and lang).

last year I was in English 2 and with each passing day of 2025 I am glad i own this book and didn't just listen to an audiobook or something.

this and 1984, Fahrenheit 451 etc are incredibly important to have PHYSICAL copies of because at this point we never know if or when they will be taken away. read. pick up a book and read, not spotify or audible, not a Kindle. you have to read. the government does not want us to be educated.

“oh my gosh, i haven’t read since i was five!” yeah we can tell, don’t worry.

Lil hunger games comic I made >:3

Posting the Animal Farm review I did some months ago because I can

It had to be a maximum of 150 words, I ended up with 540 with the want of writing more but when I wrote it was 1am and I was already sending it late

(I fixed some mistakes so the word count probably isn't the same)

Animal Farm takes place on a farm in England at an unspecified time but its events represent the political events in Russia between 1917 and 1945 (the Russian revolution and the rise of communism).

At the Manor Farm, owned by Mr Jones, there's a pig, old Mayor, who one day gives a speech to all the animals on the farm, to inspire them to rebel against the human kind.

The days pass and Mayor passes away but his speech is still remembered by the other animals. One day Mr Jones and his workers forgot to feed the animals, so the animals started to rebel and they took over the farm and they changed the name of the farm to “Animal Farm”.

Snowball and Napoleon, two pigs very active in debates, spread the word about Animalism (an allegory to socialism), in which animals are all equal and are all against one big enemy, mankind.

They write 7 commandments that are the same to everyone, to ensure equality among all animals.

One day Mr Jones and his men try to take control of the farm back but the animals, led by Snowball, win the fight.

Days pass and Snowball and Napoleon are always disagreeing with one another. Snowball wants to create a windmill for electricity to provide light, hot and cold water and warmth during the winter but Napoleon thinks it would be useless and that it would be better if they just worked harder and prepared for a possible second attack from the humans.

At the barn there's a meeting to vote which idea is better but Napoleon uses dogs to send Snowball away and takes the power without leaving any choice to the animals.

He soon installs a dictatorship along with the other pigs, especially Squealer who becomes sort of his messanger.

His leadership is filled with inconsistencies and lies:

- He changes the commandments as he pleases, exploiting the inability to read of most of the other animals

- He makes up stories about Snowball which he changes constantly

- He gaslights the other animals in believing that the changes he does to the rations or the contact with humankind are for the greater good

- He gives order to kill any traitors

Towards the end he and the other pigs stand up on their back limbs, similar to how we humans walk, referencing back to the earlier simplified version of the 7 commandments “Four legs good, two legs bad” as the pigs become like the humans at the start of the book.

The Animal Farm's name is changed back into its original name, which means that the pigs became what they once despised.

The different animals all represent different parts of society:

- the pigs are the people who exploit the poor and their hard work

- the dogs are the ways that dictators/tyrant use to put fear into the lower social classes

- the sheep are the people who fall for all the propaganda they see. Saying that someone is (like) a sheep means that they are all the same and follow everyone else like sheep do.

- all the other animals are the lower social classes

I would recommend this book as I think it shines light on the cruelty of dictatorships and how it can affect the lower classes.

(I didn't get to read the whole thing in class btw 💔)

I could do an updated version with more things if I decide to read it again 😁!!