Pros And Cons Of Shooting An Elephant By George Orwell

Before shooting the elephant, Orwell meditates on some kind of cost benefit analysis and weighting the pros and cons each solution to his dilemma. According to Aronson’s research in The Social animal, any individual is subject to tend to conform regardless of their will because of external pressure. Thus, we can tend to comply under any type of pressure such as the pressure that comes from a univocal crowd. A group in total conformity has an authority that our mind would often refuse to contest. Hence, against a crowd of heated natives Orwell’s didn’t act according to what he thinks but to what he felt was forced to do. In the first place, Orwell decided not to shoot the elephant because it seemed innocuous and because he didn’t wanted to kill