Shotting An Elephant: The Inhumanity Of Imperialism
George Orwell is known to be a very political person evidenced by his writings, the most popular ones being 1984 and Animal Farm. Shooting an Elephant is a short narrative of an event that purportedly happened to Orwell while stationed in Burma as a police officer. There is no strong evidence to support this but the story tells of a man’s call for an end to imperialism in the East. British colonialism during the period when this story was written was already waning and their control over the Indian peninsula was slowly fading. The narrator confirmed this in the story saying, “I did not even know that the British Empire is dying, still less did I know that it is a great deal better that the younger empires that are going to supplant it”.
Shooting an Elephant tells the story of a police officer who one day was confronted with an elephant that run amuck, killing an Indian, ‘a black Dravidian coolie’ who according to the Europeans was not worth as much as an elephant......
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