Burma

Why a British Officer Murdered an Elephant? This summary is about the journey of a police officer in Burma. Its based on the short story Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell. It’s all about just how this police officer killed the elephant and how he arrived at his decision. This story it about roles, feelings, morality and inconsistency of a man and his power. One of the most important aspects of this story is how this young man felt about his job. At the beginning, he makes it very clear that…

The first T-Shirt is designed according to the idea of protection in Elephant Run. During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army invades Burma, a small British colony located in Southeast Asia. Nick Freestone, the protagonist has recently immigrated to Burma to live on his father’s plantation away from the German air raids in London, England after his own apartment was bombed. Soon after Nick’s arrival, however, the Japanese invade, and capture the Freestone plantation, forcing “[a]ll…

Peer pressure occurs when a person in order to be liked or in order to fit in the group performs a task that when kept alone would not perform. And on not doing the task would be subject the person to think of what the other party might think of him/her. The time period in which Orwell had to decide whether to kill the elephant or let it live was a very crucial stage. The second paragraph of the essay he states that he had no intention to shoot the elephant only to simply scare it away “I had no…

The difficulties of the speaker are established from the very first sentence. White skin is the bullet-proof barrier between the narrator and the people of Burma, and this separation brings on more persecution to the typically powerful white man. “...[they did not] have anything to do except stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans” (Orwell 1). In the beginning, the physical setting is not so distinctly…

humanity and political dominance whose imperialism is torturing other people from different races. -His struggle with his job, his empire and within himself is expressed throughout the essay. 2. Summary The story takes place in Moulmein, Burma, a colony of the British government. The main character is an English police officer working there who is struggling with his internal conflict. He holds a deep hatred towards his own job and the British imperialism. Although he has a distaste…

describing a man’s experiences in the country of Burma (now known as Myanmar) under British rule. Both works reflect on a man’s first-hand experiences and address key moral issues. They also explore life under British imperial rule. While Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” and “A Hanging” have much in common, they are also quite different. “Shooting an Elephant” and “A Hanging” have quite a lot in common. For starters, both works are set in the country of Burma during British imperial rule. Orwell…

repercussions on the respect and morality of, not only the people of Burma, but also the people of the imperial power. Imperialism causes an anti-Europeans sentiment, which leads to resentment by the oppressed, and also causes the oppressors to be imprisoned by the system of imperialism, which leads to guilt and the need to prove themselves among the oppressed. Imperialism results in resentment. The anti-European feeling is obviously prevalent in Burma, yet no one raises a riot because the…

man turns tyrant…” consequently, “it is his own freedom that he destroys" (Orwell, 184), in the struggle for dominance. George Orwell, a sub-divisional officer under the British Crown stationed in their colony of Burma, in his essay, confronts the fact that the…

In The Guest by Albert Camus and Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell, both authors explore colonialism and its effect on the oppressed and the oppressors. In Shooting an Elephant, Orwell recounts his experience in Burma as a police officer. Despite Orwell’s contempt towards imperialism and support for the Burmese, he is often caught between his hatred towards the British Empire and personal resentment of the Burmese. Similarly, in The Guest, Daru, a French-Algerian school teacher, is often in…

“Shooting an Elephant”. Orwell’s features an entertaining and informative style of the characters and how they feel tend to draw us into Burma. Orwell utilizes the use of ethos throughout the story making you sympathize with the main character. In "Shooting an Elephant", Orwell tries to gain the sympathy of the Burman folk by expressing his feelings as an English man in Burma, yet he fails to convey to the Burmese his intentions, troubled with his morals, and showing a sense of tenderness to the…