Hoysala Empire

In George Orwell’s Shooting An Elephant, he compromises his belief on British imperialism and even his belief on shooting the elephant. It is implied in the essay that Orwell thinks that British imperialism is bad, and he compromises this belief by being a police officer for the advantage of the British in the country of Burma, now known as Myanmar. Likewise, he compromises his belief on what he should do about the elephant, and ultimately decides that he has to shoot it. “Has to shoot it.” I say

example of how he is trying to inform his readers about imperialism. In James A. Tyner’s journal, “Landscape and the mask of self in George Orwell’s ‘Shooting an elephant”, Tyner agrees that, “for the moment, that the elephant does symbolize the British Empire” (265). Orwell gets a call that an elephant has attacked and killed a Burmese man for no reason. This allows the reader to make the connection the elephant’s attack on the Burmese was exactly what the British were doing to the Burmese. The British

Amazingly, George Orwell is the author of “Shooting an Elephant”. Shooting an Elephant takes place in 1920 Burma, India during the imperialism period. Importantly, Orwell interacts with three symbols that represent: The Burmese people, an elephant rifle, and an elephant, to show some of the evils of imperialism. Firstly, the Burmese people snicker, laugh, and sneer at Orwell. Therefore, it brought out the anger in the Burmese when Orwell arrived in the vicinity. Furthermore, the Burmese antagonize

LOST The narrator encounters three conflicts, one with the people of Burma who ridicule him when he is secretly on their side, one with the British Empire on account of its shameful occupation of Burma and one with his conscience - the elephant. The conflicts are so disturbing to him that he struggles with their answers. Orwell starts the story with his struggle with the Burmese people. “As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so.” “In the

like “petty”, “sneering”, “wretched”, “intolerable”, and “rage” (para. 1,2) when he’s describing some of his encounters in Burma. Most of all, Orwell just wanted to be liked and respected. He is tired of being punished for the actions of the British empire. He states that like “every white man,.. in the East” (para. 7) he was just living “one long struggle [to] not be laughed at” (para. 7). Orwell’s change in tone forces a change in the reader’s perception of the situation. When he shifts from enraged

Throughout history many great empires have risen, flourished and collapsed. Ever since the very first empire was created, no two have been exactly the same. According to Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, in history, political units didn’t usually represent one single person or consist of one specific group (1). This is especially true of Empires. Empires contain a wide variety of people with different religions, cultural interests, and political views within their expanding borders. Over thousands

Since the beginning of time various groups across the globe have fought for their freedom, and territory. Some groups failed and found little fortune while others prospered giving way to powerful nations capable of seizing land from the less fortunate for their own benefit. This is what modern day historians refer to as imperialism. Throughout history these powerful nations have used imperialism to their advantage. In simple terms imperialism is a powerful tool used by powerful nations in order to

After reading “Shooting an Elephant,” I think Orwell was a person misguided to his future and to his choices. Rather than attend to the university, Orwell join the Imperial police in neighboring Burma. Where he later realized and explained he is opposed to the British Colonial Project in Burma. He made up his mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner he get off that job the better. Yet, something happened that an elephant was destroying the bazaar. Feeling forced to do some decent police

causes a lot of agony in the Burmese people’s live. This is related to how the elephant went on rage and tried to wipe out any of the Burmese people who got in its path. He uses the phrase “All I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirted little beast who tried to make my job impossible” (Orwell 2). As Orwell finds the value of the elephant, he finds no value in the people; the elephant and him share the interest that they are hard workers

little more than the others. Their names are Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte. Both men were highly respected and greatly feared. They also ran great empires that spanned over thousands of miles. They wanted to rule and conquer anything they could. They have many similarities and differences in the way they ruled and conquered. Their empires were so big that there came a time where they couldn’t control it and their reign came to an end. Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte have molded and