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A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts the theme of authority in each. No additional sources are used.
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-- properly! Twentieth-century British author George Orwell (the pen name used by Eric Blair) was no admirer of
authority. In fact, he had spent most of his brief life rebelling against established authority, preferring the collectivism of socialism to what he regarded as the tyranny of the
British Empire. His disdain for authority was based on the perceptions drawn from his own first-hand experiences, first as an officer for the Indian police in Burma as a
young man, and later, as a world traveler who had called most of Europe home. For him, authority meant oppression and the abuse of power. Orwell had
glimpsed authority up close, and he didnt like what he saw. He became an award-winning journalist, whose poison pen was often aimed at people or regimes in positions of
authority, holding them accountable for their actions against the masses. The theme of authority is explored in two of his most famous (and oft-quoted) short works, Shooting an Elephant
(1936) and Politics and the English Language (1946). Shooting an Elephant is Orwells personal narrative of his time as a law-enforcement official in Burma. It is a poignant and
ironic allegory of British imperialism, for in Orwells view, the authority which enabled the government to hold the Burmans virtual captives in their own country was also, perversely, holding it
prisoner as well. Orwell noted, "In a job like that you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters. The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages
of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been Bogged with bamboos--all these oppressed me with an intolerable sense
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