Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell New Writing, Autumn 1936 IN Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people—the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter. No one had the guts to raise a riot, but if a European woman went through the bazaars alone somebody would probably spit betel juice over her dress. As a
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March 20, 2012 Shooting an Elephant and Decolonising the Mind In life, we as humans often make decisions that we would not have made on our own if we would not of had influence by someone else. In both “Shooting an Elephant,” by George Orwell and “Decolonising the Mind,” by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o both Orwell and Thiong’o received the British colonial education. As humans, others' opinions mean a great deal to us, and in "Shooting an Elephant", and “Decolonising the Mind,” they both have
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varieties, for example by taking on the role as a mother for your younger siblings because of absent parents, or as in this story being given the authority of a town and licence to kill when you don’t feel old or wise enough for it. In ”Shooting an Elephant” we have a first person narrator. For instance: “I was hated by large numbers of people. ” The “I” easily gives away our narrator. In the informative text at the beginning of page 1, we are told that the author George Orwell was a police officer
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Amrhein, Lexie SR “Shooting an Elephant” Background Eric Arthur Blair is the real name of the author in “Shooting an Elephant.” George Orwell was Blair’s pen name. He was born June 25th, 1903 in Motihari, India and died January 21st, 1950 in London, United Kingdom. His role models include Charles Dickens and Aldous Huxley. The British novelist and essayist also became a teacher at Hawthorns High School in Hayes, West
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Shooting an Elephant In all societies we can be forced to do something because it is expected of us. The consideration you go through before taking action can seem interminable. Taking actions on your own is what makes you independent as an individual person. There are people who can handle the pressure from the expectation and there are people who cannot. The short story "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell from 1936 explains the thoughts and the speculation that goes through a person’s
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Why He Did This? The story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell indicates the weakness of human nature. Orwell cannot obey the original thought deep inside his mind, but did what the public expects him to do. He is always a negative thinker who lacks of confidence. He never considered himself an important person. When there comes the chance that he can prove he is somehow useful, therefore he pulled the trigger and shot the elephant. However, in his sub consciousness he does not want to do
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us into someone we are not and make us act in a dismissive way. This essay will focus on two characters from two different proses; Blanche DuBois: a southern beauty from A Streetcar Named Desire and George Orwell: a sub-division office from Shooting an Elephant. Even though both characters differ in many different aspects such as background, upbringing, era, and class, both characters have something in common; their insecurities make them act in a negative way to compensate for their void. Each character
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In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” I felt bad for the elephant. Because Orwell shot and killed the elephant only to not avoid looking like a fool in front of the Burmese people. But, at the same time I felt for him and the pressure he was under being a police officer at the time. It was expected there was a wild elephant on the loose and it needed to be done. When reading this essay, I felt Orwell did a wonderful job making us feel what he was thinking and the setting he portrayed he also
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actions - and if that is the case, how can they be punished for their misdeeds? In fact, how can they be praised for the good things they do, if those actions were not also freely chosen? George Orwell did not have free will when it came to shooting the elephant. Orwell expresses his conflicting views regarding imperialism through three examples of oppression by his country, by the Burmese, and by himself on the Burmese. Thus he was not morally responsible. This made Orwell realize his role in society
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that are asked every day. From my understanding of existentialism is making your own choices and later on having to dwell on the presumptions of that choice that you made. In such as Orwell having to dwell on the choice that he made of shooting the elephant. According to his essay, “existentialism” Sartre explains the beliefs and conditions of existentialism. The most important beliefs that Sartre had was that there is no human nature. “If existence really does precede essence, there is
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