Similarities Between Shooting An Elephant And Salvation

In “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, the officer experiences internal and external pressure to shoot an elephant unwillingly. In the story, an Imperial British officer goes after an elephant causing a disturbance in a village of Burma. Despite having no intention to harm the elephant, he begins to conflict with the internal pressure of going against his own morals to please the Burmese people; externally dealing with the pressure of the Burmese crowd and the duties of his imperial job. Ultimately, he succumbs to pressure and shoots the elephant against his intentions. As the officer encounters the elephant face to face he decides he will not kill the animal. His attitude is clear from the start as “ I had no intention of shooting the

George Orwell describes to us in “Shooting an elephant” the struggle that his character faces when to win the mobs approval and respect when he shoots down an innocent animal and sacrifices what he believes to be right. Orwell is a police officer in Moulmein, during the period of the British occupation of Burma. An escaped elephant gives him the opportunity to prove himself in front of his people and to be able to become a “somebody” on the social

He says that secretly he supported the Burmese and hated their oppressors, the British, who he worked for. The policeman then gets called up because of a tiny incident. An elephant had killed someone and the Burmese people were urging the policeman to shoot the elephant. The narrator is then left with a decision whether to kill the elephant and show off his authority or leave the elephant be and seem weak to the Burmese people. Ultimately, he is forced to shoot the elephant in order to avoid being laughed at and the elephant suffers an agonizing death.

“Shooting an Elephant” is a short anecdote written by George Orwell. The story depicts a young man, Orwell, who has to decide whether to bend the rules for his superiors or to follow his own path. George Orwell works as the sub-divisional police officer of Moulmein, a town in the British colony of Burma. He, along with the rest of the English military are disrespected by the Burmese due to the English invading their territory and taking over. Over time, Orwell, the narrator, has already begun to question the presence of the British in the Far East. He states, theoretically and secretly, he was “all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British.” Orwell describes himself as “young and ill-educated,” bitterly hating his job. Orwell uses powerful imagery and diction to convey a depressing and sadistic tone to the story. At the end of the story, he faces a dilemma: to kill the elephant or not.

In the article "Shooting an Elephants" by George Orwell the author's story is very captivating and descriptive. “I remember that it was a cloudy, stuffy morning at the beginning of the rains.” He does not hold back the details as if he remembers them. Orwell originally did not want to shoot the elephant but feared what his peers would say, his peers being the thousand yellow faces that stood behind him if he didn't complete his job. Unfortunately, he was not in fear of his life but his duty and job called for him to against his morals and shoots the elephant. The locals had it out for him anyways, not killing elephant would have added fire to the flame of the dislike they would have for the policeman. The Burmese people play a huge role, badgering

The story of Shooting an Elephant is a short story that shows the internal struggle of a man who tries to figure out for himself if he values self respect more or others respect more. The main character is a European who works for the sub-divisional police in South East Asia. He is stationed in Burma where, even though he hates the people, he hopes the Burmese win the war. Hatred for the Burmese people is fueled by their mocking him and treatment towards him with absolutely no respect and little regard. In addition, even though the man shoots the elephant, he earlier stated that he had absolutely no resolve in him to shoot the elephant. His decision to not kill the elephant comes crumbling down when he realizes the Burmese will take notice of him if he shoots the elephant. Why would he care about what the Burmese thought of him if they hated him anyway? This is because his hatred for the Burmese is little in comparison to how much he wishes for respect and recognition. The

While the elephant continues to break away, his force begins to diminish “ One could have imagined him thousands of years old.”(5). We now see the power that the Burmese are capable of putting out. The British army is slowly giving up. Orwell shoots again “...he did not collapse but climbed with desperate slowness…”(5). Again, “ That shot did it for him”(5), the British army has lost all their strength to the Burmese, as the Burmese flock to the dying elephant Orwell fires two more times to end the pain and suffering once and for all. The British army has been robbed of all their power, you see them have the vision of re-rising but can not. Eventually the elephant dies, symbolizing the freedom the Burmese have just

Being from the east, nobody is fond of him, but he sees this as an opportunity to prove himself. This story reveals his meaning of violence as he is stuck in this dilemma. Is it really worth it, to shoot the elephant? Thomas C. Foster’s chapter, “. . . More

The way I came to that conclusion is that he is a European officer in a country that was conquered by Britain. The officer does not want to make the British people look weak and like fools. He also thought that, “every white mans life in the East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at” (Orwell 725). This is because he hated his officer job and wants to be treated with more respect. Also at the end of the story when the officer thinks, “I had done it solely to avoid looking like a fool” (Orwell 727). The officer is now looking back and thinking if his diction to kill the elephant

In the essay “Shooting an Elephant” conflicts arise within the British policeman. Throughout the essay, the British man is faced with issues in his life that challenges him not only internally, but also socially. Maintaining his self image was mainly one of the problem in this essay. Although he was authorized to be given respect; he didn’t want to want to risk it, but there were also other reasons that he experienced conflict.. Firstly, the policeman had issues with the Burmese people that he had to serve.

George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” is a short story that serves as a metaphor for Imperialism in the early 20th century. He recalls being an officer in Moulmein, Burma, an area that was occupied by the British until 1948, while he served there he dealt with the issues of Imperialism and he uses the story to express those issues. He uses the metaphor of the elephant to express how Imperialism affected the British and the Burmese(occupied people) in a negative way. The British were represented by the elephant and the gun, the elephant represented the British empire and the gun represented the power of the British. At first the Elephant was tamed and docile, it eventually became must, and finally it had to be taken down.

In “Shooting an Elephant”, loss of innocence and corruption of man are shown in the British officer. The officer is hated amongst his community. There is also an elephant hated too for killing an innocent

The conflict in “Shooting and Elephant” is between the British officer and his self image. On his quest to finding this elephant that ravaging the Bazaar, he brought an old .44 Winchester with him, not to kill the elephant, but to simply use the noise to frighten the elephant. Soon after he found the elephant, a crowd began to form behind him as they saw his rifle. His intentions were not to shoot the elephant but he was worried what people would think if he did not do so. Coming from an area that wasn’t as high in poverty as the place he went to shoot the elephant, people were amused by his attempts of killing the elephants. I don’t think if he was in as high of authority as he was it wouldn’t have mattered if he shot the elephant. Since he

The writer shows that the police officer is anxious to be likes by the villagers through him killing the elephant. He didn’t want to kill the poor beast, but he knew that it is what the people want. When the officer kills the elephant, he immediately sees that this killing was unreasonable. Part of society agrees with it and part is not. These differences of opinions lead him to be unsure of what society actually wanted him to do.

He had known that the people of Burma were not fond of him since he was an imperial police officer, so by killing the elephant he was expecting the Burmans to respect him. As reading