Animal Farm

"There are no characters in Animal Farm that deserve our sympathy" Do you agree?

Absolutely false. Surely the two cart horses deserve our sympathy. All Boxer thinks about is working harder to make life better for himself and his fellow animals. Even though we might disagree with his motto "Napoleon is always right," who can help feeling sorry for Boxer--and outraged at Napoleon--when he gets sent to the glue factory because he can't work anymore? Clover, the other cart horse, doesn't have Boxer's blind faith in Napoleon. She questions things that she thinks are contradictory or just plain wrong. Again, who can help feeling sorry for her when she runs after the van that's carrying Boxer to his death?

Even though we disagree with a character's political or social beliefs, we can still feel sympathy for him or her.

I totally disagree with the idea that they don't deserve sympathy. Boxer for example is one of the characters one cannot read about and not feel devastated when they read what happens to him. People have always felt horrible at the idea of someone putting all of their life into something only to have the very people they helped treat them like they're useless junk to be thrown away.  The animals who are forced to confessed then brutally slaughtered by the dogs are another group who deserve sympathy.  The dogs themselves do; they've been taken from their mothers and brainwashed to become dogs with no sort of qualms over killing the animals who are supposed to be their 'comerades'.  Benjamin knows whats going on, and doesn't really voice it sure, but imagine the guilt of knowing that someone close to you was killed and could've had a chance if you acted sooner?  Every animal in this story deserves some sort of sympathy. I think its because each of these characters has so many identifiable traits that its hard to say they don't.