Animal Farm' by George Orwell is a novel which mirrors events in Russia during and after the 1917 Revolution. In 'Animal Farm', there are two characters who represent two different roles. One is Boxer, who represents the hardworking lower class citizen on the farm who is decent, honest and essential to the success of an social system. The other character Mollie, represents the White Russians, who under the Tsar had a privileged life. The two characters are different as they belong to different social classes, and also have different characteristics.
             Orwell creates these roles for Boxer and Mollie to comment on and share his views of how Communism in Russia was a poor substitute for Socialism. While Orwell would have supported a political system which truly provided equality, he is deeply critical of what happened in Russia under Stalin.
             Boxer represents those people in Russian society who genuinely were prepared to work hard to see the success of a new society. However, Boxer is too trusting and while he has some misgivings about the exile of Snowball, he cannot see that the society of the Animal Farm is turning into a structured and hierarchical society where the pigs are privileged and the workers like himself are exploited.
             Mollie, too, is naive and cannot see the political irony in a society which is created to provide equality but which is in fact rapidly becoming unequal. However, she can clearly recognize that the privileges which she had under the old system on the farm with Mr. Jones does not exist in the new system. Her reaction is to leave as soon as she is able and the animals hear that she has now found another place where privilege is still possible.
             From the opening of the novel, the reader sees how kind and gentle the carthorses Boxer and Clover are towards the other animals. Boxer is introduced as the 'universally respected' figure for his 'tremendous powers of work'. Howe...