George Orwell - Shooting an Elephant - Essay.
The people said that the elephant had come suddenly upon him round the corner of the hut, caught him with its trunk, put its foot on his back and ground him into the earth. This was the rainy season and the ground was soft, and his face had scored a trench a foot deep and a couple of yards long.Shooting an Elephant This paper is a critical analysis of George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant. This paper examines George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” and how the author uses metaphors to represent his feelings on imperialism, the internal conflict between his personal morals, and his duty to his country.In the essay, “Shooting an Elephant,” George Orwell succeeds greatly in demonstrating his distaste and the evil of British imperialism. Using figurative language to support his points, he tells the story of a personal anecdote in which he shoots and kills an elephant in Burma, which was a British colony.
In the way that Orwell's shooting of the elephant reflects a form of vandalism of natural life, so to do the beatings of Burmese bodies and the imperial policing of Burmese society.In the essay, Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell illustrates his experiences as a British police officer in Lower Burma, and reflects it to the nature of imperialism. Since “anti-European feeling was very bitter” due to the British Empire’s dictatorship in Burma, Orwell is being treated disrespectfully by the Burmese (12).
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