Friday, November 11, 2016

Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

In the essay, Shooting an Elephant, 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 suggests 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 natives, 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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