George Orwell Shooting The Elephant Analysis

His dilemma is the same than one that we may confront with work that conflicts with the our ethical excellence or moral values and we always face all these challenges every day even from the past or present. I believe that George Orwell’s essay shows what a lot of people are going through in this days generation; having the hard time what to do is right in terms of moral when the world complies us to uphold. As has been mentioned, Orwell literally abandons his morals and kills the elephant to have the approval of the Burmese and not to be laughed at be looking like a fool. Orwell speaks of himself when he says, “it is the condition of rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the natives” (515). In the same way, every situations …show more content…
That he wears a mask and his face grows to fit it. His story obviously portrays a role that he is against and that it suffocates home like the mask that which he wears.The main point, is to expose the conflict between the law and moral conscience. He made decisions that can be good nor bad and he is bothered by his decision. If should he shoot the elephant or not. Thinking that he needs to do some sort of action to protect the Burmese people. As we all know, he personally does not want to shoot the elephant because it is no harmful no more and it is a working elephant that just got away from its mahout. Subsequently, he shoots it because if its pride over the people of Burmese which resulted a painful death but not only that, also because if his position as a British officer, he got to do the law. After he shoot the elephant, he felt a terrifying experience where his emotions went down real quick. He is also shown the body of a man who was beaten to death by the elephant. As a result, the narrator has realizes that even when you still follow the rules and regulations, it can be always collide with your guilt and with that, British Imperialism competes against ones guilt an or