The first time I heard about George Orwell was in high school. As one of my high school teachers has told us that George Orwell was a social critic with a strong critical thought and he preaches equality and justice, I had a brief knowledge about him. After reading some of his works such as 1984, Animal Farm and Shooting an Elephant, I found out that each book he wrote was to use some fable or some facts that he had experienced to expose the darkness and the lie of the society and dominance. This essay is going to analyze what the author wants to tell us.
When I open this article “Shooting an Elephant” again and combine it with the historical period, I come up with some deeper understanding and views. This text is both a memoir about his own …show more content…
The Burmese were incapable to revolt British. As the author is a white people, so in almost every aspect the natives will do something bad on him such as tripped him during football games. Because he is a British, he should respect his country while he sympathizes with the natives. Just because of these, the writer want to use this story to show off his anger to imperialists and his conflicts on regarding himself as a human or a police officer in the empire. Then the story begins with a manic elephant force on entrance into natives’ normal life. I think that the author wants to create an example to show how the colonizers influence the natives’ lives. So to some extent, the elephant was the victim of imperialism and colonialism. The more tragic the elephant is, the more it can highlight the evil of imperialism, and the more prominent the contradiction of the narrator of the colonial manager. As mwestwood, a writer who posted his opinion on this story online, said “One interpretation of George Orwell's "On Shooting an Elephant" may well be that the elephant is symbolic and its dying a metaphor for imperialism.” I agree with his opinion about comparing the elephant as the capitalist country. The several things that the elephant has done before it was shot like destroying the village which representing the capitalist country destroy the Burma, killing a worker which representing the capitalist country deprive the labor from the colony and killing a cow which representing the capitalist country get the results and the benefits made by the
When I open this article “Shooting an Elephant” again and combine it with the historical period, I come up with some deeper understanding and views. This text is both a memoir about his own …show more content…
The Burmese were incapable to revolt British. As the author is a white people, so in almost every aspect the natives will do something bad on him such as tripped him during football games. Because he is a British, he should respect his country while he sympathizes with the natives. Just because of these, the writer want to use this story to show off his anger to imperialists and his conflicts on regarding himself as a human or a police officer in the empire. Then the story begins with a manic elephant force on entrance into natives’ normal life. I think that the author wants to create an example to show how the colonizers influence the natives’ lives. So to some extent, the elephant was the victim of imperialism and colonialism. The more tragic the elephant is, the more it can highlight the evil of imperialism, and the more prominent the contradiction of the narrator of the colonial manager. As mwestwood, a writer who posted his opinion on this story online, said “One interpretation of George Orwell's "On Shooting an Elephant" may well be that the elephant is symbolic and its dying a metaphor for imperialism.” I agree with his opinion about comparing the elephant as the capitalist country. The several things that the elephant has done before it was shot like destroying the village which representing the capitalist country destroy the Burma, killing a worker which representing the capitalist country deprive the labor from the colony and killing a cow which representing the capitalist country get the results and the benefits made by the