Not to Shoot In George Orwell’s’ essay, “Shooting an Elephant”, he finds himself in a personal struggle on whether or not to shoot an elephant. The story is set in Moulmein, located in Lower Burma, where George Orwell was disliked by the Burmans because he was European. One day there was an incident where a tame elephant went crazy and escaped from its owner. Orwell was a police officer in the town when this happened and he was called to help. The natives who once hated Orwell looked at him in
Shahinda Ghaly LAH 100 Professor Kiwanuka Nsereko November 12th, 2015 Shooting an Elephant-Critical thinking George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” unveils the hypocrisy and abhorrence of British imperialism through the eyes of a British policeman. Set in Burma during the British occupation, the story depicts Orwell’s pursuit and experience in killing a rogue elephant. He is caught in a conflict between satisfying the expectations of the natives and violating his own moral conscience. Though at
"Shooting an Elephant" is George Orwell's wracking and painfully honest tale of his experiences as a police officer in imperial Burma. In the narrative, Orwell retells the time he had to mull over a critical decision that involved an elephant that had gone mad. In his work, Orwell argues that he shouldn’t shoot the animal because the owner was on his way to tame the wild beast and was just morally not the right thing to do. In the end he felt that he needed to do what the surrounding mob of people
Introduction In the article “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, Orwell metaphorically establishes his beliefs on imperialism through the use of the narrator, who is a British soldier located in Burma, and an elephant. The article suggests that the narrator’s story is actually Orwell’s own personal account. Orwell begins the article by detailing the hatred displayed by the Burmese towards the British Empire since the Europeans have invaded their city. Secretly, Orwell is on the Burmese natives’
In the essay “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell the narrator is working as an Imperial policeman in the British occupied Burma where he questions the methods of imperialism used by the British. He describes the hatred the Burmese had towards Europeans, him specifically, which confused him as he considered himself on their side and hated the evilness of imperialism. One day an incident which he describes as ‘enlightening’ occurred. He reviewed a phone call from a fellow officer informing him
The short story Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell is about Orwell’s experience with peer pressure as a sub-divisional police officer in Moulmein, Burma. This experience occurred during the 1930s when the Burmese had a strong anti-European feeling. It commenced when the sub-inspector at a police station asked him to control an elephant who wrecked the bazaar, livestock, a house and ate fruit in the city. It`s mahout, the only person who can control it when it was in that state, was a twelve hours`
and groups of people. George Orwell Uses peer Pressure to evoke emotion in the readers of Shooting An elephant. George Orwell was shy and lacked self-confidence as a child. He suffered from bronchitis and the flu all
EWRT 1A Shooting the Empire In “Shooting an Elephant” George orwell has a job as a police officer to enforce the British rule. Orwell’s duty in the story is to respond to a report of an elephant in Musth who has gotten of it’s chain and is terrorizing the village. On the way to the elephant Orwell finds a man “lying on his belly with arms crucified and head sharply twisted to the side”(Orwell 15) He notices the mothers herding the children away from the trampled man and continues on. Following the
In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell highlights the struggle of a British officer who feels compelled by the Burmese people to kill a rampant elephant in order to follow his duty of being a police officer of Burma. Orwell confronts the elephant with a gun in the story and realizes that, “when a white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom he destroys.” (Pg.6 3rd paragraph) This sentence provides an excellent thesis for the story. Because Orwell was in a position of authority, he had
In “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell express his internal dilemma as to whether or not he should kill an elephant rampaging through a Burmese town. I believe he did the correct thing by killing the elephant because, the elephant was dangerous since it killed someone and destroyed some of the Burmese people’s homes, the elephant was also in “must” which can cause an elephant to be unpredictable and can last for several months depending on the elephant (Peel), not only that but killing the elephant