Rhetorical Analysis of “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell succeeds greatly in telling one of his remarkable experiences in Burma. While working for the British Empire as a police officer in Burma‚ he comes across a elephant gone mad that in his judgment he shouldn’t shoot because the handler was on his way and there was no need to kill the expensive piece of property anymore. But in the end he felt that he needed to do a service for the mob of people that had congregated. Orwell wrote this essay
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their differences is merely impossible. Thus‚ the existence of dichotomy will always be. People tend to choose their accepted social counterparts based on what they have in common with one another. For example‚ the Burmese villagers in‚ “Shooting an Elephant” viewed the foreigner as an outsider because
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Orwell’s autobiographical account of shooting and eventually killing an elephant presents the animal and its death sympathetically as it died a slow‚ painful death. Through the language‚ the author evokes sympathy towards the elephant and a slightly more complex feeling towards the author who‚ although he kills the elephant‚ suffers inwardly during the process and appears to be affected by the Burman crowd’s greed to strip the carcass. In the society Orwell lived in‚ hunting was common amongst
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During the time of imperialistic rule‚ rich empires were able to take over those of lesser value and benefit from their resources. This is the exact situation going on in Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell; the British had taken over the Burmese. Through Orwell’s use of stylistic and rhetorical strategies‚ he conveys the inferior attitude he has towards himself and the trapped‚ conflicted attitude he feels towards his position in Burma‚ which both stem from the negative aspects of imperialism
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In “The Death of a Moth” written by Virginia Woolf in 1942‚ she correlates the life of a moth to the simplicity “true nature of life” and death. Moths are content with life while they do their duties as humans are‚ while putting up a fight. A large process of life of suffering and attempting to survive in this large process. Woolf claims that we‚ like moths‚ have such a simple and marvelous purpose in this world. We can do so much with the amount of energy we have but‚ we only do what we have
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Although‚ the modern version of “Hills like White Elephants” may be a better video for today’s viewers the traditional version is more superior to Hemingway’s subtext because both the man and girl have different viewpoints‚ jig wants to make the choice for herself ‚ and throughout the whole video there are hints of the man leaving the girl behind. When the couple is sitting at the table in the station‚ the man brings up many promises about this operation during the conversation which the girl clearly
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122 16 March 2016 Journal #7: “The Death of Moth” In Virginia Woolf’s essay “The Death of Moth” (1942)‚ she implies that the power of death is over us. Woolf develops her ideas by juxtaposing the change of nature in a summer day before and after the death of a moth‚ and the dying process of the ordinary moth. By using those powerful imagery‚ the author contemplates the death of an ordinary life in order to provoke readers to reflect the powerfulness of the death. With emotional and reflective tone
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Paper Prompt 3 “Read carefully paragrphs 11-13 of Orwells Shooting An Elephant. THen write a well-organized essay explaining how the author uses stylistic devices and rhetoical strategies to convey his attitude toward the shooting of the elephant. Elephants were once‚ and are currently‚ considered prized possessions in some parts of the world. The taming of these majestic creatures dates all the way back to BC and‚ since then‚ elephants have continued to hold high value especially ceremonially
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his main purpose(s) in shooting the elephant? Both the one he uses to justify his decision and his real
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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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