forced to carry out orders by authority. George Orwell ’s "A Hanging" is a descriptive essay about capital punishment. The setting of this essay is placed in an early twentieth-century prison in Burma‚ a country ruled by the British Empire. Considering that George Orwell was an imperial police officer in Burma‚ it is highly probable that this essay is related to his own experience. The essay‚ presented through the eyes of the narrator‚ examines primitive human nature. Orwell develops his essay through
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the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948‚ in which his subjective‚ first-person narrative tells a story through its prose with a very strong political purpose. Orwell is called upon to shoot a hostile elephant whilst working as a police officer in Burma. Orwell demonstrates social pressure through the hierarchical structure of status‚ in this essentially extended metaphor whereby the elephant serves as a symbol of colonialism and‚ at the moment of its defeat‚ it is seen as an even more powerful symbol
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visiting places of religious importance.\ I ’ve been visited even a few other country ‚the most beauty country in the world is my own country ’Myanmar’ for me.Myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia‚formely known as Burma.Previously an independence ‚Burma was annexed by the British Empire into the colony of India in 1886 but it was returned to the British control until independence in 1948.Myanmar is situated in Southeast Asia‚is bordered on the north and northeast by China ‚on the east and southeast
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menial jobs‚ and Burmese Days (1934)‚ a novel of British colonialism. Shooting an Elephant’’ functions as an addendum to Burmese Days. The story and novel share the same setting‚ and draw on Orwell’s experience as a colonial official in India and Burma‚ two regions of the British Empire‚ in the middle of the century between the two world wars. The story (which some critics consider an essay) concerns a colonial officer’s obligation to shoot a rogue elephant. The narrator
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alphabet ’Marmaza’ or ’Marimacha’ originates from the ’ancient sub-continental Brahmin alphabet that had left-to-right writing style. It is known from a book on the ancient history of Burma‚ entitled‚ Mraina Samoing Rajwong that the people of Krishna and Godabar’ areas of south India migrated to several areas of southeast Burma in the sixth century. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Marma tongue is a dialect descended from the Burmese language. It is because a language is always like a flowing
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SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (JOURNAL) This story begins in Moulmain‚ in lower Burma. The author speaks about his experiences while he was working as a police officer. In this time‚ Orwell was a young inexperienced soldier. He was in that place to protect the Queen’s interests. He had to do unethical things that made conflicts himself. When he mentions that he killed an elephant I feel his pangs of conscience. The elephant destroyed a village before it died. The villagers were furious about all the mess
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wrong in what he did. As a result‚ he finds himself doing whatever he must do‚ which in this case is to kill the elephant‚ to “avoid looking a fool”(89). (Rule#4)Orwell symbolizes himself as the British imperialists‚ who were the ruling authority in Burma‚ and the Burmese people as the elephant. Shooting the elephant is a symbolic of the English government ’s relationship with the Burmese people. By narrating the experience of killing an elephant‚ George Orwell presents a good model of narration.
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through words”. I will show you why this is. Aung Sang Suu Kyi uses a substantial amount of pathos in her speech. When she combines pathos‚ antithesis and a lack of fear‚ she forms a speech that reaches out to people not only in her own country of Burma but also the whole UK Government and its allied nations. This is evident through her quote‚ “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to
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1. Orwell shoots the elephant because the two thousand native people standing behind him expect him to. They want revenge for the man it killed‚ the meat the carcass will provide‚ and the entertainment of watching the shooting. “The people expected it of me and I had got to do it” he writes. There is a suggestion that if he decided not to shoot the elephant‚ both he and the empire would suffer a loss of prestige‚ but the main concern in Orwell’s mind is the “long struggle not to be laughed at”. He
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the text do you see examples of Orwell’s attitude towards the native people? - Orwell feels hated by the Indian people‚ but he still wants to impress them by shooting the elephant. 4. Find examples of Orwell’s attitude towards his own position in Burma. 5. In the second paragraph‚ what is suggested by the qualifiers “and secretly‚ of course” and “if you can catch him off duty”? 6. Note Orwell’s language in paragraph 5. What are the rhetorical effects of “merely ravaging their homes” and “as it
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