In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”, Orwell is placed in a situation with an “untamed” elephant. Orwell is a police officer stuck on duty in Burma from which he desperately wants to leave. He is well aware of the fact that the Burmese people do not like him at all; however, he is the one who they call on when there is trouble. According to me, Orwell uses his story of shooting the elephant to exemplify the peer pressure he feels in Burma from its people. As we read in his
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In the essay “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell Orwell sees imperialism in multiple points-of-view. First off, while Orwell is describing the prisoners he shows a hidden the cruelty of imperialism. Orwell draws the picture of “wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of lock-ups” some with “scarred buttocks [...] had been Bogged with bamboos” (2). Orwell is showing that the prisoners, treated as animals, being humiliated by their oppressors. In addition, Orwell believes imperialism
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SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT PRATIK THAPA "Shooting an Elephant" tells a story of George Orwell as he struggles between his moral objection to not shoot an elephant and legal responsibility to shoot it. Throughout his adventure, he decides that it is best to kill the elephant however he believes that It is against his rationale. Though, he feels bad about killing the elephant, he kills it at last and he tries to justify his act throughout the whole essay explaining how pressuring and compelling the
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George Peshkov Professor Carra Glatt 10/28/2015 Shooting an Elephant Essay Whether it be financial decisions, how much time to spend on studies, or whether or not to go out for a run, there are always conflicts through an average person’s days. These conflicts are usually met through an understanding of morals(both internal and external), the outcomes of the decision, and how much effort is required. In George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant there are constant showings of conflictions in the narrator’s
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dilemma is a conflict in which you have to choose between two or more actions and have moral reasons for choosing each action.Like in the essay “Shooting an Elephant,” George Orwell finds himself in a moral dilemma. Our main character a police officer in the British Raj, and he writes about his experience or moral dilemma in his short story, 'Shooting an Elephant. To save face, he shrugged it off as his desire to 'avoid looking the fool'; (George Orwell, 283). In truth, the atmosphere of fear and pressure
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Everything Comes With A Price Unexpected choices an individual must make can have ever-lasting effects. In the story "Shooting an Elephant," by George Orwell, the author recalls an experience from his past when he was twenty years old in which he had to choose one of two lesser evils. Several years later, the memory still haunts him. The short story takes place at some point during the five depressing years Orwell spent as a police officer in Burma. He dislikes where he is in life, and when
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What can any of us can do under peer pressure? Three messages and/or themes from George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant. Peer Pressure, peer pressure is when one person does something against their morals/beliefs or even wants because the people, usually a group of people, tell or expect this person to do. There are many ways to be pressured into doing something that one may not agree with, and there are many people who would push for whatever task to be done. George Orwell was an early twentieth
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In “Shooting an Elephant,” Orwell was confronted with an elephant that was bringing chaos to Burma. As a white officer, he was expected to assume responsibility of the circumstance and was ultimately pressured to shoot it. He executed it, regretfully and against his ethical nature. The issue with this was that he understood regardless of his position or status, he was not the slightest bit in control of himself and was forced into conferring a demonstration that goes totally against his tendency
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A Disgusted Diction Many stupid choices are made by a dare or when their made fun of. Many effects of these choices are usually not good. This has happened many times including in the short story shooting an elephant. A Even though George Orwell appears to be an authority figure in the short story the author's diction, is a tone of disgust and mockery. To begin, Orwell portrays the mocking tone of the Burmese people as harsh insults. For example “There were several thousand of them in the
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natives as shown in the story that even though the elephant does not have any strength the officer wants to make sure that it dies, “lands a bullet after a bullet to put the beast to end”, meaning the oppressor wants to make sure that enough damage is done to those oppressed that they are completely broken and have no ways to resent or to retaliate. Even though the elephant stood their and was calm the officer still made the decision of shooting it basing on the “yellow faces” as he mentions would
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