go wrong, he would state his motto: I must work harder. Later in the book he assumes another motto to explain the tyranny of Napoleon with: Napoleon is always right. Boxer eventually runs out of strength and collapses. Napoleon offers to help by arranging a visit to a veterinarian. Boxers friend, Benjamin, a wise donkey, discovers that Boxer is not sent to a doctor but to a butcher. Benjamin represents the people that remained skeptical of the revolution. Those who were skeptical did not believe that revolution would improve the conditions of the country and maybe not even change them. They knew that power struggle was contradictory to what communism stood for. Benjamin holds to his motto, which he repeats in order to remain apathetic to either side, that states: Donkeys live a long time. He knows that Napoleon is bad and realized all along that the revolution would lead them right back to where they started.Besides characters there are many items that can be compared as symbols in the book and in Russia. The whip that Napoleon used in the farmyard to wield power can be compared to the power that Stalin used on the Russians. Napoleon carried a whip in his trotter. Stalin used his power to starve the Russian people and to have Lenin arrested. Stalin's main goal was to maximize his personal power. ("Stalin," Britannia 576). Stalin "whipped" his people into shape by collectivizing agriculture, by police terror, and by destroying remnants of individual prosperity. He also led the Soviet Union into the nuclear age (Clarkson 442). Propaganda is another item that was used in the Russian revolution. It can be compared to Squealer in Animal Farm. Squealer brainwashed (a form of propaganda) the barnyard animals into believing that they did not like apples and milk, while he and Napoleon were stealing the food for themselves. In Russia, the Bolsheviks carried out propaganda on the people by passing out leaflets and putting stories in the newspap...
