A Hanging By George Orwell
“A Hanging” by George Orwell (Literary Analysis)
“A Hanging” is a short story about the death of a prisoner who gets hanged. The writer, George Orwell was motivated by as a head police in Burma to write this story. Orwell utilizes a mixture of literary components, devices, and gadgets to pass on his disproval of the death penalty. He makes a dreary climate, in the first person perspective, and develops irony about the corrections officer's state of mind toward the prisoner’s death, to show that everybody is included into the hanging process, in this way uncovering how the death penalty is unjustifiable.
The dull climate of a correctional facility and the storyteller's perspective demonstrate that the death penalty has an effect on the prisoner as well as everybody involved. The story is composed in the first person perspective, since "I" is the main character of the short story. Additionally, the storyteller himself states, "We were waiting outside the condemned cells" (Orwell ) and "The superintendent of the jail, who was standing apart from the rest of us, which gives the audience evidence that the storyteller is an imperial police.” (Orwell 11). In this manner, “A Hanging” is an account of a head police looking as prisoners are executed around …show more content…
The tone and mood lets us know that the storyteller, who is only a viewer of a hanging, disagrees with the death penalty. The difference of corrections officers' states of mind toward a prisoner's passing demonstrates that everyone included in the death penalty feels some type of discomfort during the process. The death penalty impacts many individuals other than the person being hanged, Orwell characterizes the death penalty as unjustifiable and extreme
“A Hanging” is a short story about the death of a prisoner who gets hanged. The writer, George Orwell was motivated by as a head police in Burma to write this story. Orwell utilizes a mixture of literary components, devices, and gadgets to pass on his disproval of the death penalty. He makes a dreary climate, in the first person perspective, and develops irony about the corrections officer's state of mind toward the prisoner’s death, to show that everybody is included into the hanging process, in this way uncovering how the death penalty is unjustifiable.
The dull climate of a correctional facility and the storyteller's perspective demonstrate that the death penalty has an effect on the prisoner as well as everybody involved. The story is composed in the first person perspective, since "I" is the main character of the short story. Additionally, the storyteller himself states, "We were waiting outside the condemned cells" (Orwell ) and "The superintendent of the jail, who was standing apart from the rest of us, which gives the audience evidence that the storyteller is an imperial police.” (Orwell 11). In this manner, “A Hanging” is an account of a head police looking as prisoners are executed around …show more content…
The tone and mood lets us know that the storyteller, who is only a viewer of a hanging, disagrees with the death penalty. The difference of corrections officers' states of mind toward a prisoner's passing demonstrates that everyone included in the death penalty feels some type of discomfort during the process. The death penalty impacts many individuals other than the person being hanged, Orwell characterizes the death penalty as unjustifiable and extreme