Thematic Idea: Militarisation of Political Ideology What I think the Author want us to learn: I believe he wants people to see and understand that politics have a way of dividing even the closest of people producing a world where no one can win. Author's opinion on the human condition: I think he is talking about the fragility of interpersonal relationships when a leader rises up in power and calls for loyalty even with the danger of death or injury for an ideology one believes in. Example 1:
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Accordingly, Society cannot function the way an intellectual maneuvers the information they acquire but questions them when doing so, resulting in a lost connection between those two things. This is basically telling people in the government that focusing on the individual’s happiness lets people with questions gain freedom to do as they like. Equality 7-2521 and John, the Savage, are imprisoned in a controlled experiment where they cannot exceed the structure of freedom created in the civilization
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I LOVE red shoes! One time my uncle had a pair of red Nikes that made me just druel. He said he would give them to me for $100 because they don't fit him anymore, but at that time I never had $100, then he told me if I wanted the shoes I would have to work for him. He worked as a Pig Breeder, so I had no idea what I would have to do, so he gave me instructions on what i would have to do. First, feed the pigs, and that includes getting a 40 pound bag of Pig Pellets and putting a bag in each stall
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George Orwell, pen name for Eric Arthur Blair, was an excellent British author who was born in India. In "Shooting an Elephant" he shows just how bad imperialism really is. Showing examples of hate, oppression, and guilt that Orwell felt and faced as an India Imperial Police Officer. Being a police officer Orwell was an easy target to hatred. The Burman people would trip him and laugh very loudly. There would be insults yelled at him and they would get badly on his nerves. Orwell hated his job
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George Orwell writes the story "Shooting an Elephant" which is one of his own police experiences in lower Burma. Britain gained contrl of Burma after three wars, fist in 1826, second in 1852, third in 1885. Britons Dominated the economic, political and social lifestyles of their conquered lands. Everything from jobs, politics, government positions, and even put up a social barrier between them and others. Meanwhile the Brmese resentment incresed steadily, and so they turned to the few things they
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Brave New World is about a very controlled futuristic society. The story begins as a group of young students following a tour in a factory called the London Hathcherey and Conditioning Center, conducted by the director of the factory. The director describes the process of how humans are mass produced and conditioned to have certain morals. Each person in the community exists to serve society. Next, a new character named Bernard is introduced to the story. Bernard is an Alpha male psychologist that
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In A Brave New World by Alduous Huxley is a story of how technology in the future can take over the human race by depicting the story of a man who is different than everyone else through imagery, motifs, and symbolism. This novel in some ways shapes what the future will look like when humans are cloned and the whole world is corrupt. Love will no longer exist, it will all be about men and women just having sex all the time. There will be no emotion or feeling. The world will be a dark place and Huxley
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Why did he shoot the elephant? There are many different reasons as to why George Orwell chose to shoot the Elephant in the short story, ”Shooting an Elephant”. In the following essay, there will be a wide and deep response of why George Orwell chose to shoot the elephant in the end. The first and primary reason for George Orwell shooting the elephant is simply Orwell being afraid. He was originally not intending to shoot the elephant; he merely brought the rifle for his own protection. “I had
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story at many points, it causes tensions between the natives, it affects both sides, it promotes immorality to gain the oppressors needs, and it makes people such as the officer take decisions that they ought not to in their daily lives. For example Orwell states that “the British Raj as an unbreakable tyranny...prostate people”, and he goes on in the same paragraph mentioning the “bayonet into a Buddhist priest’s guts”. “feelings like these are normal by the products of imperialism ask any anglo
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pressured me to opt for medicine as a career. I recently happened to read George Orwell’s “Shooting an elephant”. Just as Orwell, an imperialist officer who hated imperialism had a dilemma; I too because of my parents was in a similar situation. The issue of moral dilemma and question of choice always come before us. Life places us in different scenarios, where we have to take a choice that influences our life a lot thereafter. Orwell had to take a decision whether to shoot a mad elephant or not. He did
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