In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”‚ Orwell is presented with a task that causes him a great deal of stress as he battles with his internal conflict throughout the story. Orwell has mixed feelings after he kills the elephant. He feels wrong for killing the elephant because he feels that there could have been a more peaceful solution and killing it will bring more harm than good. He also feels that he killed it just because of his own pride. Although killing the elephant may seem wrong to Orwell
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Page 1 Professor Bautista English 110 October 8‚ 2012 “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell In his essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” George Orwell recounts a time in his life when as a British police officer in India‚ he was faced with the moral dilemma of having to shoot an elephant in order to save his pride. In the beginning of the essay‚ Orwell describes it as a time of tension and hostility. For example‚ if a European woman was seen walking alone in a bazaar she would be spit on. This shows
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George Orwell‚ “Shooting an Elephant”; Adam Hochschild‚ King Leopold’s Ghost (excerpt); Queen Liliuokalani‚ Hawaii’s Story (excerpt) A. “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell 1. How does Orwell express his disillusionment with imperialism in this essay? 2. What do you think he means by this sentence?: “One day something happened which in a roundabout way was enlightening. It was a tiny incident in itself‚ but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism
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evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College‚ which introduced him to England’s middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship‚ which led him to become a police officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack of respect for the justice of British Imperialism in Burma and India. He was now determined to become
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In the story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell‚ the main character had gone threw a big change throughout the story. The changes that he had encountered may have not been intentional‚ but peer pressure has its way of influencing people to do things they don’t want to do. In this story a tamed elephant turns for the worse and the main character is called into take care of the problem. The main character in this story starts off with a very different mindset then when he ends the story. At
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Reader’s Response: “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell’s essay‚ “Shooting an Elephant” tells the story of a British policeman in British occupied India‚ who faces a situation where he must either follow his morals or pretend to be something else in order to please the public. Obviously living in Burma in the early nineteen hundreds‚ as an Englishman‚ was not easy. Furthermore‚ serving as a steward of the law in a place oppressed by the country you are from‚ certainly will make a job difficult
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2014 Student Dialogue: Shooting an Elephant In George Orwell ’s dialogue Shooting an Elephant‚ he accentuates the grave aversion that he has for being a police officer in Moulmein. The author uses many literary devices to depict his controversy with killing the elephant or not‚ such as foreshadowing‚ and speaking in first person‚ and appealing to pathos. The main element used in this dialogue is conflict‚ Orwell shows how he contemplates on whether to shoot the elephant or not. The literary elements
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Shooting an Elephant In the short story by George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant" the author unveiled to his audience the bureaucracy and his struggled with himself. As in so many other countries‚ bureaucracy and prejudice maybe found. However‚ in East Burma those days it was regiment. it appeared to be do as one says or pay the consequences of not doing the preferred choice. In this story‚ George Orwell‚ served in a top position in Britain as a police official. Throughout his years in his position
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A.P English 10-1813 Shooting an Elephant essay Have you ever been influenced by others to do something you do not want to do? A lot of people have‚ including George Orwell in his essay Shooting an Elephant. Being influenced by others‚ also known as peer pressure is a thing that happens every day‚ not only in high schools like most people think but outside of schools and in the real world. In Orwell’s essay he did something because he did not want the people of the town to think poorly of him
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In George Orwell’s story‚ Shooting the Elephant‚ the narrator is faced with a strenuous decision that is against a somewhat formidable foe. The foe is not some lunatic of a man‚ but a raging elephant. The elephant has been causing amok in the town. The narrator‚ who is also a police officer‚ is called down to investigate the havoc that is being caused. Upon hearing about the troubles the elephant had caused the Burmese population and seeing for himself what the elephant has done‚ he is faced with
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