Shooting An Elephant: Inner Conflict
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Assigned to serve as a subdivisional police officer in Moulmein in Lower Burma, George Orwell "had in mind that imperialism was an evil thing." He struggled for the realization of which side he was for. The mature Orwell would have surely known how Voltaire's dictum went, that "when one man is i ....
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.... death, the animal was so completely soundless, tame, and approachable that Orwell didn't want to shoot the elephant, but against better judgement, he did so anyway. Because of the pressure "to impress" the natives of Burma, he felt it was expected ofhim to shoot at the animal. Ironically enough, even though Orwell was the main character in his story he was converted into a pawn torn from his better judgement as a result of those yellow faces. He observed in that instant that when the white ....
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