Elephant and Castle

to do. Both choices will have different outcomes, but you have to face your situation with your mind. In Shooting an Elephant, The background of George Orwell and the pressure of the community around him causes questionable actions from Orwell. Was he just trying to save his 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,…

by the young British law enforcer in George Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant” was by the pre existing tension between the British Empire’s imperial rule over Burma, and the Burmese’s disrespectful actions towards his authority being enforced of the Empire. Orwell displays this conflict and tension as we see his use of symbolism and irony throughout the essay. As a matter of fact, Orwell’s symbolic use of the elephant shows both sides of the confliction between the British Empire and…

In the story, “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, he is essentially powerless because even though he is an authority figure he feels he must do what the Burmese people expect him to do or he will be laughed at or humiliated. Orwell ends up shooting and killing an elephant, “a tame one which had gone must”(Orwell, p.140), which is aggressive behavior triggered by mating instincts(footnotes). He did not want to kill the elephant but he ended up doing it anyways because he felt pressured by…

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…

15 The Tyranny of Obedience In both, Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell and Learning to Read and Write, by Frederick Douglass, the author’s explore through their personal experiences, the poisonous effects that tyrannical institutions have not only on the oppressed but the oppressors themselves. Although, Orwell is different from Douglass because he enforces an oppressive regime, while Douglass is enslaved to his master, they both suffer in their…

The Negative Impacts of Imperialism as shown in “Shooting an Elephant” “Shooting an Elephant” is a story written by George Orwell that takes place in Burma where the British government has sent military officers to the colonies it has there. The story is written through Orwell’s point of view as one of the officers who is strongly disliked by the Burmese that live in the colony. By writing about his experience as a military occupier in a British colony in Burma, Orwell tries to show that…

American Born Chinese is a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang about various characters dealing with stereotypes, and prejudices. Two main characters that seem to struggle with this are the monkey king and Jinn. The monkey king is the king of all monkey's on his island. He is looked at as a god and respected by every monkey on the island. But when he is invited to a dinner party for all the gods, he realizes that nobody else has respect for him. By everyone else he is looked at as a dirty monkey.…

Adrianna Geisler ENGL1010 Essay #1 8 Sept. 2015 Reading Response Essay for “Shooting an Elephant” In the essay “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, the author is trying to show how imperialism can have strong effects on someone. In addition, Orwell describes his personal decision to shoot an elephant after the animal kills a man. He does not initially intend on killing the animal, but anti-imperialism and the pressure of the crowd really get to him. Orwell states that the only reason he…

Hills like White Elephants Men and women are built for each other, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have any difference. In fact men and women have a lot of differences in just how they communicate. In the short story “Hills like White Elephants” is a good source behind this topic. The difference in how men and women communicate deal with the; purpose of them communicating, the way they like to approach or be approached, and the way each gender listens while communicating. In the story of…

Where is the Change? An essay inspired by Shooting an Elephant I would like to thank George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant for providing inspiration for the essay you are about to read, and for teaching students around the world an important aspect of the human condition. I sat on the edge of the river bank, watching the ripples float past. As I looked out into the water it was then that I saw it, floating past with the grace of a swan. The only evidence of its path being the trail of…