Burma Road

perceived as an outsider, working for the imperialist in Burma. The persona was experiencing external conflicts with the Burmese people due to their mockery of him as a British Empire, the British Empire’s unjust occupation of Burma and his internal conflict with conscience and self image. He stated, “I was hated by a large number of people.” This high modality encompasses the struggles of discovery, working as a British imperialist in Burma, none of them liked the British. When he was informed…

Orwell was born in Burma during British Imperialism in 1903 and moved with his mother and sister back to England shortly after. Due to his sickliness, frailty, and bedwetting he was picked on by the children of his school, and was determined to be ungracious by his headmaster. Because of this “on some fundamental moral level, he was a failure” (Quinn). After such a harsh time attempting to achieve an education Orwell returned to Burma to work in the service of the Indian Imperial…

After working as an imperialistic police for England George Orwell saw fist had the good and the bad that comes with imperializing a country. Three important symbols that come together to give a vivid description in Orwell’s “shooting an Elephant” are , the rifle, the elephant, and the villagers. A rifle can be week, powerful, large, or small. The rifle in Orwell’s “shooting an Elephant” fistly represents England 's power. England was losing its power as a rifle can as it ages. A rifle can be…

Conformity and Non-Conformity Defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “Conformity is the fact or state of obeying or agreeing with a behavior that is similar to a behavior of most other people in a society, group, etc.” In the following reading selections: “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, “They Call Him a Miracle Worker” by Michael Ryan, and “Salvation” by Langston Hughes, the authors illustrate how the characters of these essays felt pressured to conform to the expectations of others…

The elephant represents an entire repressed society suffering under imperialism created by “the denial and oppression of differences” between Burma and Great Britain (Heise). This is supported by Edward Quinn’s, a professor of English at the City College of New York, novel Critical Companion to George Orwell: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. In this book, he states that the elephant…

In recent years, with rising conflicts and intense persecution in various parts of the world, a UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) report (2015) revealed that 63.5 million people have been displaced from their homes. “The number of refugees who have fled across international borders due to conflict and persecution is at the highest level in recorded history” (Dryden-Peterson, 2015). Unfortunately, a large number of Pakistani minority groups had to leave their home country and…

In 2000 more than 36 horrible incidents have happened like elephants bolting from circuses, running through streets, crashing into buildings, attacking members of the public, and killing and injuring handlers. Although circuses are used as a form of entertainment, it is still not right to hold animals in captivity. In the mid-1830s. Brown Purdy came down from New York where he met an animal dealer named Hachaliah Bailey that obtained a baby African elephant, which he exhibited around the country…

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…

thing. What about shooting an elephant? In Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell, the main character is a police officer from Great Britain during the Imperialism Era. Stationed in Burma, the main character is hated by nearly everyone. On a seemingly normal day, an untamed elephant was reported running rampant through Burma. In an effort to track down the elephant, the officer finds the latest victim of the elephant, mauled beyond recognition. The main character got a rifle and followed the…

Along with the vivid similarities, unique differences can be found surrounding the “peer pressure” the characters from both stories feel. First of all, the main difference in both these characters is that one of them gave in to the peer pressure and the other didn’t. In Shooting an Elephant, George gave in to the peer pressure as he felt that the easier way would be the better way to evade the problem. He decided to shoot and kill the elephant just like the Burmese wanted him to, even though his…