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name sake for the pleasure of the community? The first cause and effect situation in Shooting an Elephant cannot really be avoided. George Orwell was born in India, but he is of English descent. He was educated in England, and he later returned to Burma where he served as a police officer. This background knowledge sets up all the hatred that the villagers had for him. The cause and effect relationship here is if you are European then the oppressed villagers will have hatred for you. Orwell…

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The True Power of Imperialism George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, Orwell shoots the elephant against his better judgment due to the pressure to uphold the reputation of the British. “Shooting an Elephant” shows how imperialism can result in undesirable behavior and inflect harm on…

captures the audience and transports them into the mind and emotions of his own. Orwell was born as Eric Blair on June 25th of 1903. He was an outstanding British author and complex writer. Serving as an imperial police officer from 1922 to 1927 in Burma. Orwell didn't seem to agree with imperialism, he stood more against it with the Burmese people; he was a victim of the system he hated. He was forced to comply with the orders that were given to secure himself. This particular situation…

his fourth novel The Glass Palace. The novel points out that how colonialization has brutally exploded in the South Asia and results into the environmental degradation. The novel is interlocked in the various historical events like colonization of Burma by the British, the First World War, and conquest of Japan over Russia, the intense changes wrought by World War II etc. It’s a story that initiates in Mandalay in the year 1885 and extents up to the three generations. The British force, consists…

In 2003, the New York Times wrote, “”Orwellian” itself, is the most widely used adjective derived from the name of a modern writer … It’s more common than ‘Kafkaesque,’ ‘Hemingwayesque’ and ‘Dickensian’ put together. It even noses out the rival political reproach ‘Machiavellian’, which had a 500-year head start.” We see and hear the term "Orwellian" used to describe ideas that George Orwell identified as being destructive to a free society. In much of his work, he emphasized control by…

In “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, the author writes about his experience with dealing a rampant elephant in British Colonial Burma. Privilege is usually viewed as a positive attribute, however Orwell explores all of the negatives that privileges can bring, which can be applied to modern day social expectations and politics. In order to highlight its effects on a personal and a widespread level, he uses the rhetorical device of figurative language. The figurative language__________…

Making sure not to embarrass his family he published the book in his pen name George Orwell. The next year he published “Burmese Days” in this selection he detailed his overseas experiences in Burmese Days. This gave dark look inside the colonialism in Burma. This peaked George’s fascination politically, and it grew aggressively after the novel was published December 1936, married Eileen O’Shaughnessy and took a trip to Spain. In Spain, he joined one of the groups that were against General…

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…

The citizens of Burma are hurting and should have a chance to be heard. The Burmese people will continue to suffer if they are not heard for what they live with every day. In Burma, the military government violates human rights by compromising Burmese citizen’s health, aiding the drug addicts, and sexually abusing women. Most of the population is malnourished and dying of diseases that may not be deadly to Americans, but are to Burmese due to the lack of health care. No human should be denied…