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In three pages, this paper examines this period in author George Orwell’s life in terms of the author’s personal feelings about the experience, the internal conflicts, it generated, and how these contributed to his composition of the essays “A Hanging” and “Shooting an Elephant.” Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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colonization, it was a way of life that imprisoned both the oppressed and the oppressor. At least that was the assessment of anti-Imperialist British subject George Orwell, pen name
of Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950). After his death from tuberculosis in 1950, Orwells will expressed his demand "that no biography of him should ever be written" (Countts 189).
Despite the many biographers who failed to heed this warning, there was no greater author of his own life than George Orwell himself. Parts of his life were reflected
all of his works, but none more brightly in his first-person narrative essays. As with all great authors, his writings were "determined by the age he lives in" (McCoy
223). By the twentieth century, the British Empire was a shell of its former preeminent self. It regarded imperialism as an unfortunate means to a desirable end -
to regain its former global glory. However, for the enforcers of imperialistic law and order like George Orwell, the consequences were anything but glorious. Born in Motihari, India on
June 25, 1903, Orwells father was a British civil servant who was employed by the Indian colonial governments Opium Department (Countts 189). Acquiescing to pressure from his father to
also become a member of the Imperial Service, Orwell joined Burmas Imperial Police in 1922, which unlike other British colonies, had at the time the Empires "highest crime rate" (McCoy
224). During his five years in Burmese law enforcement, Orwell witnessed British imperialism at its most abusive ugliness (McCoy 224). Two essays written in the 1930s, "A Hanging"
(1931) and "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) were the authors "autobiographical confessional pieces" about the injustice he witnessed during his tenure as a Burmese police official (Rossi 172).
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