In the novel Animal Farm there was a horse named Boxer and a pig named Napoleon. Napoleon took over the farm that all the animals live on, and he used Boxer, a strong and dedicated horse, who was dim-witted, to gain loyalty from the animals. Napoleon skillfully used Boxer's ignorance, unquestionable trust and stupidity to his own advantage. Napoleon realized that the other animals trusted and admired Boxer so he used him to help maintain order and his control on the farm, which he ruled as a dictator. When Boxer was no longer a productive citizen to Napoleon, Napoleon killed him, proving himself to be a fierce, greedy, and tyrannical dictator.
At first Boxer was essential to Napoleon to maintain order on the farm. Napoleon realized that he had to convince Boxer to believe in animalism and the need for a revolution because Boxer had the ability to influence the other animals. The horses Boxer and Clover were not very smart, but were able to understand the pigs teaching and taught it to the other animals. "Those two had great difficulty in thinking anything for themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers, they absorbed everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other animals by simple arguments.""P.37. Moses a troublemaking raven made it even more difficult for Napoleon and the other pigs to convince the other animals that the revolution was necessary, Moses told the animals about an imaginary place called Sugarcandy Mountain. The mountain was a dream paradise place were animal went after death, the symbol of a better life after death. This ideal was dangers because some of the animals believed life and work on earth was not important or worth fighting for because they would eventually have paradise in the sky after death. Napoleon found it difficult to counteract the animals' beliefs. Napoleon used Boxer to expel their believes in Sugar Candy Mountain and convinced then to believe in the revolution and animalism Boxer was a very simple minded horse who did not think for himself, and he believed everything Napoleon told him.