Showing posts with label Shooting an Elephant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shooting an Elephant. Show all posts
"I was hated by large numbers of people" - Comment on that line.
This line has been taken from George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant", which is not exactly an essay, it is a sort of reporting. Here 'I' refers to the author himself and the phrase 'large number of people" suggests the native Burmese people.
The Burmese people hated the author because he was "the subdivisional police officer of the town" under the British Authority. And these people were enslaved to British Imperialism, which is described by the author as "an evil thing". And the imperialistic oppression of the British authority ran rampant in Burma. As a result there was a strong anti-European feeling in the mind of Burmese. So, they hated and disliked our author George Orwell.
Actually they are so tortured and tormented by the British rulers, that they belch out their anger in every step. And this is only a petty example of this.
The Burmese people hated the author because he was "the subdivisional police officer of the town" under the British Authority. And these people were enslaved to British Imperialism, which is described by the author as "an evil thing". And the imperialistic oppression of the British authority ran rampant in Burma. As a result there was a strong anti-European feeling in the mind of Burmese. So, they hated and disliked our author George Orwell.
Actually they are so tortured and tormented by the British rulers, that they belch out their anger in every step. And this is only a petty example of this.
What does Orwell say about imperialism in his essay "Shooting an Elephant".
George Orwell in his essay, "Shooting an Elephant", expresses his bitter experience as a sub-divisional police officer in Burma under the British authority. He perceived there an extremely hostile view of the native against the English people whom they regard as 'oppressors'.
Though Orwell was an officer under the British, he had much hatred for them and sympathy for the native people: "I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors,the Brirish." He describes 'imperialism' as 'an evil thing'. He disapproved fully the oppressive measures of the British rulers to sustain their imperialistic policy and interests. As a British officee, he knew very clearly how the natives were tormented as he says, "In a job like that you see the dirty work of the Empire at close quarters."
"The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of lock ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been flogged with bamboos" - all these oppressed our author with "an intolerable sense of guilt".
Actually Orwell realized how dreadful and inhuman was the machinary of British imperialism. To him, that imperialism appeared horrible, tyrannical, and monstrous.
Though Orwell was an officer under the British, he had much hatred for them and sympathy for the native people: "I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors,the Brirish." He describes 'imperialism' as 'an evil thing'. He disapproved fully the oppressive measures of the British rulers to sustain their imperialistic policy and interests. As a British officee, he knew very clearly how the natives were tormented as he says, "In a job like that you see the dirty work of the Empire at close quarters."
"The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of lock ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been flogged with bamboos" - all these oppressed our author with "an intolerable sense of guilt".
Actually Orwell realized how dreadful and inhuman was the machinary of British imperialism. To him, that imperialism appeared horrible, tyrannical, and monstrous.
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