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    In 1936‚ author George Orwell wrote an essay titled “Shooting an Elephant”. In the essay Orwell describes a scene of a British police officer who is stuck between having to shoot an elephant. The story takes place in Burma‚ India where then‚ they were under British imperialism. Imperialism is a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force. It humiliates the occupied people‚ reducing them to an inferior status in their own country. Analyzing Orwell’s work

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    The short story‚ “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell‚ tells his story of an encounter with a loose elephant. He struggled through a dilemma in which he were to kill the elephant‚ or let it be. Politically‚ George Orwell was against an imperialistic run government‚ and used his writings to portray the many negatives he saw through imperialism. In the story‚ the elephant is a metaphor of imperialism‚ and its effects on the people. The actions of the elephant and the reactions of the civilians

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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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    news and oppresses dissenting voices‚ bears great resemblance to the premise of my favorite book‚ 1984. Published by George Orwell in 1949‚ the novel portrays an authoritarian state through the eyes of an average citizen‚ Winston. The term Orwellian is coined from the novel‚ which is used to describe actions by a totalitarian or authoritarian state that includes deception‚ secret surveillance‚ historical revisionism and blatantly

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    In the essay “Shooting an Elephant”‚ George Orwell uses the elephant as an extended metaphor for Orwell’s morality and the outside forces challenging it. In the second paragraph‚ Orwell makes it clear that he “was stuck between [George Orwell’s] hatred of the empire [he] served and [his] rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make [his] job impossible.” Deep down‚ Orwell despised imperialism and sympathized with the oppressed Burmese people as a whole. His morality is clouded

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    George Orwell and Jimmy Cross Character Comparison In the two short stories‚ Shooting an Elephant and the Things They Carried there are certain similarities and differences that George Orwell and Jimmy Cross hold. Each character in the short stories has there own different situation they are in‚ but they both are in a foreign land and they both have to take orders and do what there country is asking of them. However‚ even though each situation is different they both deal with some of the same

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    Childhood in ’Such‚ such were the joys’ by George Orwell In his essay entitled ‘Such‚ such were the joys’ George Orwell describes his life at the boarding school‚ St Cyprian’s in Sussex‚ from the age of eight to the age of thirteen. He focuses on his own inability to assimilate in the new environment and the preferential treating received by the wealthier students. Orwell describes childhood as a trying and harsh trial. He portrays it through the eyes of the child that believes most of the adults

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    because he is very persuasive. Also‚ he always seems to get away with things and he’s a good liar. Another reason is because he is a brilliant talker and when he skips from side to side by whisking his tail he can make any of the animals convinced (Orwell 36). Squealer also uses fear to get what he wants. In the novel Animal

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    We are trapped in a never ending war‚ a war with ourselves and with others. In this war‚ each side is fighting for power. This is the case in the essay‚ “Shooting an Elephant‚” by George Orwell‚ where it can be interpreted that “when the white man turns tyrant‚ it is his own freedom he destroys… he wears a mask‚ and his face grows to fit it.” Through the beginning of the essay‚ a person can consider this thesis to follow yet disagree with the essay. Depending on the way that a person interprets

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    Elephant" written in 1936‚ George Orwell comes off as being a racist and a coward. I believe that he is not a coward. After reading the narration‚ you must picture yourself during that time in Burma. In the hunt for natural resources the British forced themselves upon the people of Burma. This caused great tension and hate against any whites‚ Especially the Burman priests who”...none of them seemed to have anything to do except stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans.” Orwell was a sub-divisional

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