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Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell - Reviews
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A mature Eric Blair (George Orwell's given name) looks back to his younger self with regret He was shamed into being the public executioner of a rogue work elephant while stationed in The British Foreign Service in Burma. Based on the George Orwell short story of the same name, 'Shooting An Elephant' tracks the tragic steps of a day long rued, when a man's innocence was forever lost. Reprimanded by his ineffectual superiors, goaded on by the very Burmese who had grown reliant, yet distrustful of the English uniform, driven to blood lust to by his own false pride, Eric Blair (Barry Sloane), kills an elephant he did not wish to harm solely to avoid humiliation, and in the process loses his own humanity.
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In the article Ў° Shooting an Elephant ,Ў± Orwell describes his experience of killing an elephant to express the real nature and sorrow of imperialism. He first
Orwell candidly depicts his unsympathetic actions both in shooting the elephant and in the aftermath, when he is among his fellow British police officers. He is relieved, he admits, that the coolie died, because it gave him a pretext for shooting the elephant. As far as his fellow officers are concerned, he did the right thing. As far as the natives are concerned, he saved face. Yet Orwell concludes, "I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool."
Throughout the essay, Orwell weaves his thesis about the effects of imperialism not only on the oppressed but on the oppressors, as well. He says that "every white man's life in the East was one long struggle not to be laughed at," that "when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys," and that the imperialist "becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib." Orwell's essay, however, is more than one person's riveting narrative about the beginning of an awareness. "Shooting an Elephant" captures a universal experience of going against one's own humanity at the cost of a part of that humanity.
For such a dignified animal, symbolic of strength and wisdom, the elephant dies an ignominious death. In order to effectively shoot an elephant, one should aim at the side of the head, straight at.
In Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant," does the elephant become a metaphor for colonial rule?
