Shooting an Elephant

George Orwell’s short story, “Shooting an Elephant”, demonstrates the harsh environment, and survivalist mode that the people of Burma are in. The Burmese people had been unjustly seized over, the British Empire was crumbling therefore they invaded the space around them. The narrator starts preparing the essay manifesting his perspective on British Imperialism. He claims that it is evil and he is contradicting the oppressors. Although he is a British officer in Burma, he feels a certain hatred and

It was as big as an elephant. I am definite you have heard this many times and perhaps even used it yourself. It is used to normally describe a problem that others or you are in. This is ironic because in the short story Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell, Orwell describes three big problems, and messages that come with imperialism through a story about an elephant. Orwell sees these problems with imperialism. First he points out the hatred it brings upon innocent people. Secondly, he talks about

In “Shooting an Elephant” author George Orwell tells his story of the time that he single handily killed an elephant. The story starts with Orwell telling us how he was a petty anti-imperialist. He voices that he was a simple European police officer who had been hated by the Burman people. He tells of how the Burman people would get joy from the smallest suffering of a European. How he had been tripped on a football field and how it aggravated him to suffer such harsh judgement from the very people

the old witty saying that “life has its ups and downs”? If so, then you know that there are many obstacles to overcome throughout your life. Humanity is one barrier that you will overcome that plays an important role in today’s society. In “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, the essay explores going against Orwell’s own humanity of the effects of his role in the British army stationed in Burma. Eric Blair had gone through many impediments throughout his life time before becoming a professional

audience. The person wants to make the audience pleased and keeps their reputation high. In the short story, “Shooting an Elephant”, George Orwell describes his life as a police in a foreign country, Burma, where he is forced to shoot a wild elephant who destroys parts of a village. Orwell does not want to shoot the elephant, but because of the Burmese around him, excited to see the elephant die, Orwell is compiled to do what the natives request to keep his status high. Throughout the time when Orwell

The story of Shooting an Elephant is a short story that shows the internal struggle of a man who tries to figure out for himself if he values self respect more or others respect more. The main character is a European who works for the sub-divisional police in South East Asia. He is stationed in Burma where, even though he hates the people, he hopes the Burmese win the war. Hatred for the Burmese people is fueled by their mocking him and treatment towards him with absolutely no respect and little

Shooting An analysis of George Orwell's “Shooting an Elephant” In George Orwell's story about shooting an elephant there is three main messages throughout the story that are told. The first message that comes through is prejudice and racism that happens in Burma. There is peer pressure that happens to Orwell that influences him to make his decision. At the end you are shown that authority and imperialism is this sort of way to prove power to others. In the story you are not told these messages

What is ethical and what is purely malevolent varies on the way our own conscious views them. In “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, an officer subsists within an imperialistic community in Burma, India, in which the native Burmese express tremendous aversions towards him. When he is given a duty to shoot an elephant that killed a Burmese man, this is his chance for triumph. He takes his rifle, a weak and powerless weapon, to use against a massive vigorous being. It is his goal to restore the

In this essay “Shooting an Elephant”, George Orwell faces many conflicts which leads him to making horrible decisions. He faces internal conflicts about whether to shoot the elephant or not. He is indecisive between the his decisions because he is only thinking about his image and what the people will think of him if he does not follow the rules. George knows that imperialism is an evil thing but this what his job consisted of and he had to deal with the consequences. George Orwell describes his

Then, he starts saying that the elephant was “a huge and costly piece of machinery” (Orwell 95) and the elephant seemed harmless right now. The young officer continues claiming,“I did not in the least want to shoot him” (Orwell 95). These all shows the young man’s sympathy toward the elephant, but more importantly Orwell builds up a tension here by using three different versions of repetition to show how the young