Are you still haunted by certain decisions you deemed regrettable? In the essay, “shooting an Elephant” George Orwell described an unsettling personal experience that occurred while he was employed as a British police officer in Burma. Even though Orwell was an authority figure with military supremacy, Orwell was still being ill-treated and made a mockery of by the Burmese. Orwell is soon involved in a predicament with dealing with a must elephant that killed a coolie. Now, Orwell is helplessly torn with the idea of shooting a harmless elephant that was in must or pleasing the Burmese by the pressure they applied upon him. An analysis of Orwell’s essay reveals he despised his life in Burma, and the moral dilemma, involving the elephant and
