Burma Road

George Orwell expresses different tones in the two essays, Shooting an Elephant and A Hanging. In Shooting an Elephant he expresses his anger towards the Burmese people, referring to them as, “evil little spirited beasts who tried to make my job impossible.” In A Hanging Orwell shows how the people around him take their job seriously and it's a very grim tone, but after they hang the man the tone lightens as they make jokes and laugh together. Orwell’s life influenced his essay Shooting an…

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…

Face-Saving Sucks In “Shooting an Elephant”, George Orwell shares his regret of harming an innocent elephant just to save face. If more people were aware of the extent of damage that face-saving causes, maybe they would stop and even encourage others to stop as well. Face-saving starts with peer pressure, society rules, and common lifestyles that create violence, results in injury, harm, or death, and is often regretted once the act is completed. The violence that peer pressure, society…

shoulders. He feels just as guilty writing about it as when the event actually occurred. In the essay, an elephant is rampaging through a town in Lower Burma and accidentally tramples a man to death, as well as ruins many shops and houses. Orwell is faced with an impossible decision: shoot the elephant…

George Orwell, author of 1984, was born in India in 1903. He was an English novelist and was most famous for his novels Animals Farm and 1984. Orwell was the son of a British civil servant so he lived his first few days in India, but later moved to England with his mother. Orwell did not really know his father until he retired from the service in 1912, but he never formed a strong bond with his father. Orwell was sent to a boarding school and later on joined then joined groups fighting against…

for Sale" both have one thing in common. They are each on the opposite ends of imperialism spectrum. Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" is an autobiographical essay about himself as a British police officer who works in the town of Moulmein located in Burma. He hates the Burmese authorities and the natives. Orwell is also under constant subject of the imperialists. Orwell states, "All I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited little…

Short Essay Assignment After reading the Larkin text, I agree that the military government of Burma has been a sort of ‘reflection’ of the British colonial government that preceded it. According to Emma Larkin, forty years of dictatorship has been similar to the British colonial government. One percent of the 50 million Burmese population are in the army. Along with these, there are 18 million members if the Union Solidarity and Development Association which are promised better educational and…

Orwell justifies his actions, ?solely to avoid looking a fool,? driven by the instigation of the Burmese (165). Orwell himself, against his will, has oppressed many Burmese. In Orwell?s case, the coolie killed by the elephant represents the invasion of Burma by the British. Just as no one can predict the next victim of the elephant, also no one can predict the next victim of the British. The murder of coolie gives Orwell a justifiable reason to kill the elephant. Orwell does not want himself to…

What is it like to be peer pressured? The three messages from elephant Have you ever been peer pressured into something? Have you ever peer pressured someone into something? Do you ever feel like you need to do something to impress the people around you? Do you ever want to feel cool? Can you feel cool doing something that felt wrong to you? In the story Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell, George was peer pressured into shooting, an elephant for the Burmese. There could have been…

After a huge Cyclone, Cyclone Nargis, had decimated parts of Burma, the government refused to respond to the crisis. Despite an estimated 138,000 deaths - they actively turned away foreign aid and launched no effort to attempt to help the survivors in any way. Russell writes poignantly that “After Burma’s biggest…