Name:Ziv (LiShiruiying) Course: SACE EAL Stage:1 Task 1B The Respond to “A Hanging”
According to George Orwell’s essay “A Hanging”, the main theme of equality in human beings has been shown literally. George Orwell’s past experience in Burma led to the view shown in the essay. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. He was a policeman in Burma, witnessing the authority’s atrocities at that time. He felt compassion, so he tried to evoke the reader’s sympathy and denounce the capital punishment, the hanging. The narrator thought that it is wrong to take another life. He spread many views in the essay silently with excellent writing skills, for example, prisoners are worth sympathy, equality of people, irrationality of the hanging punishment and so on.
To set a subjective view of “prisoners are poor” when readers see the description, the figurative language was used pretty ingeniously. “A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil” created a poor scene to readers. In order to maximize readers’ sympathy, George did not mention what crime the prisoner committed. In this situation, once the prisoner was executed, readers will feel incomprehensible to the punishment so that people will denounce the legislation. This …show more content…
“a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes” and “six tall Indian warders ... with rifles and fixed bayonets” constructed a bullying scene to readers like six strong police officers bullying one poor person. Nobody wanted to keep this in one’s memory because it could affect and even change people’s moods. “The Indians had gone grey like bad coffee, and one or two of the bayonets were wavering”, “Eight minutes past eight. Well that’s all for this morning, thank God”, and “We all had a drink together ... The dead man was a hundred yards away” can show that in this execution, everyone who suffered the process was a
According to George Orwell’s essay “A Hanging”, the main theme of equality in human beings has been shown literally. George Orwell’s past experience in Burma led to the view shown in the essay. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. He was a policeman in Burma, witnessing the authority’s atrocities at that time. He felt compassion, so he tried to evoke the reader’s sympathy and denounce the capital punishment, the hanging. The narrator thought that it is wrong to take another life. He spread many views in the essay silently with excellent writing skills, for example, prisoners are worth sympathy, equality of people, irrationality of the hanging punishment and so on.
To set a subjective view of “prisoners are poor” when readers see the description, the figurative language was used pretty ingeniously. “A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil” created a poor scene to readers. In order to maximize readers’ sympathy, George did not mention what crime the prisoner committed. In this situation, once the prisoner was executed, readers will feel incomprehensible to the punishment so that people will denounce the legislation. This …show more content…
“a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes” and “six tall Indian warders ... with rifles and fixed bayonets” constructed a bullying scene to readers like six strong police officers bullying one poor person. Nobody wanted to keep this in one’s memory because it could affect and even change people’s moods. “The Indians had gone grey like bad coffee, and one or two of the bayonets were wavering”, “Eight minutes past eight. Well that’s all for this morning, thank God”, and “We all had a drink together ... The dead man was a hundred yards away” can show that in this execution, everyone who suffered the process was a