Friday, November 11, 2016
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
  In the essay, Shooting an ElephantÂ, writer George Orwell illustrates his experiences as a British  law of nature officer in  start Burma. Since anti-European feeling was very bitter, (Orwell)  payable to the British Empires dictatorship in Burma, Orwell is being treated disrespectfully by the Burmese. This allows him to hate his  business line and the British Empire. However, the incident of  injure of an elephant gives him a better glimpse of the  tangible nature of imperialism the real motives for which despotic government  operation (Orwell). Through his life experiences as a British man, Orwell expeditiously demonstrates the negative effects of imperialism on individuals and society.\nWith the usage of effective  phraseology in his essay, Orwell excellently conveys his emotions and  meaning to his readers. He often uses the news  inbreds for the Burmese: Here was I, the  tweed man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd (Orwell). By doing so, he show   s his emotions and respect towards the Burmese because  craft them natives Âsuggests that he agrees on the  item that they are the true  owner of Burma and not the British Empire. Also, by frequently using the  watchword nativesÂ, Orwell reminds his readers the existence of imperialism in Burma so that the readers do not  apparently hang on to the elephant  merely  overly get the  meat incorporated in the essay.\nThe  system of the elephant is compared to machinery as Orwell thinks that killing an elephant is  similar to destroying a  enormous and  high-priced piece of machinery (Orwell). This comparison makes the readers  realise that the British Empire is also like a huge piece of machinery, so the  termination of it would be a  sedate matter to both oppressor and  community being oppressed. When Orwell was followed by thousands of Burmese, he says, seemingly the leading  fraud of the piece; but in reality I was  tho an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow    faces  tush (Orwell). He calls hims...   
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