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This 5 page paper discusses where Orwellian principles might be found lurking on the web site of the University of Arkansas. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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time as a policeman in Burma; his essay Shooting an Elephant comes from that experience. It reveals Orwells love for the Burmese and his hatred of British imperialism, a hatred
and disgust that takes even clearer shape in his books. This paper uses the book Finding George Orwell in Burma as a blueprint to try and find Orwellian principles at
the University of Arkansas. Discussion Presumably the regents of the University of Arkansas will not be reading this paper, since asking anyone to find "Orwellian principles" in an organization presupposes
that organization to be a repressive dictatorship, albeit one that probably started with the best intentions. Or perhaps they have a sense of humor. At any rate, in her book
Finding George Orwell in Burma, author Emma Larkin recounts a Burmese fable that illustrates the point that bad things happen even with the best intentions. She says that in 1988,
a strange legend began to circulate, about a small village that was being terrorized by an evil dragon (Larkin, 2005). The dragon required a sacrifice, so every year the village
handed over a virgin to the dragon; also every year a young man went to fight the dragon and never returned (Larkin, 2005). One year the warrior was followed secretly
and observed, so the villagers could find out what happened to him (Larkin, 2005). It turned out that he met the dragon and killed it, but as he sat admiring
the jewels and costly goods that the dragon had hoarded, he grew scales and horns, and turned into the dragon himself, in effect turning into the thing the villagers feared
most (Larkin, 2005). This was exactly the moral that Orwell presented in Animal Farm, where the pigs took over from the humans, and then became even worse than the humans
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