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George Orwell wrote the essay, Shooting
An Elephant, after having spent time in Burma in the late twenties as a police
officer. This 5 page paper speaks of the theme of imperialism and then
explores the meaning of the metaphors within the story. No additional sources
are listed.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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a colony of the United Kingdom and Orwell was unable to resolve the conflict he felt concerning the system of imperialism through which the British ruled. The essay makes
it clear that Orwell was not only disenfranchised from the concept of imperialism (he hated it), he was also at odds with the Burmese people who saw him as the
oppressor, regardless of what the motivation for his actions might be. The essay tells of an experience he had when a tame elephant was thought to have gone
mad and killed a man. The elephant was considered a menace to the villagers as well as to the British beauracracy. Orwell seals his fate by borrowing a
high-powered rifle. He must now kill the elephant, regardless. A crowd gathers and he realizes that he has no alternatives. The crowd and his position will not
allow anything other than the shooting of the elephant. They would laugh and laughter was the one sanction he could not bear from these people who did not understand
how repulsive his own presence in Burma was to him. He shoots the elephant. He has to shoot it. The act itself is anticlimactic after all
of the perseveration and thought, but he does shoot it. The villagers immediately strip it of meat and ivory - of everything they could find that was of value.
They then turn on Orwell and blame him for the loss of life and the loss of the resource that the elephant represented. The theme of the story is
the ethical considerations of political imperialism as it applies to both the oppressed and the oppressor. Orwell is caught between the need to do his duty and his disinclination
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