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 scene. “I had no intention of shooting the elephant”‚ Orwell confesses to us but under the pressure of the
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Lower Burma‚ also known as Myanmar‚ was a country in Asia‚ that at the moment was being taken over by the mean‚ powerful‚ cruel‚ British Empire. George Orwell‚ the writer of Shooting and Elephant‚ was a “sub-divisional police officer of the town”(1). Being an authority of the town‚ Moulmein‚ ment “[he] was an obvious target” (1). The narrator was often jeered at‚ due to the fact he was a European. He often faced many difficult tasks that he was obligated to perform‚ despite his beliefs. He was “hated
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Essar Essay Analysis 1 Running Head: ESSAY ANALYSIS PAPER Essay Analysis on “Shoot an Elephant” Michael J. Charley University of Phoenix Instructor: Dr. Vanessa Holmes Course: Business Literature Essay Analysis 2 George Orwell’s essay ’Shooting an Elephant’ gives a great insight into the human mind. The essay gives a good theme of inner conflict. Orwell feels strong inner conflict between what he believes as a human being‚ and what he believes and should do as an imperial
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Burma is governed by a military junta with the head of state being Senior General Than Shwe‚ who holds the posts of "Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council" and "Commander in Chief of the Defence Services" as well as the Minister of Defence. General Khin Nyunt was prime minister until 19 October 2004‚ when he was replaced by General Soe Win‚ after the purge of Military Intelligence sections within the Myanmar armed forces. The Prime Minister is General Thein Sein‚ who took over upon
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unified national 1 0 4 four years.1‚ 1‚ 2‚ 4 years 8 5 and 1 2 years 8 8 August 5 years the British colo nialists successively three times against Burma war‚ occupie d Burma entire territory by force‚ to Burma as a province of British India.1 9 3 of 7 years from British India‚ ruled by the British viceroy directly.1 May 4 2 years Japan’s occupation o f Burma.4 5 years after the Japanese surrender‚ September 1 for British control. • War of national liberation movement‚ 1 9 4 to 8 years on January 4
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Elephant‚ George Orwell is narrating about his feeling and pressure shooting an elephant. A little about the writer‚ Orwell‚ is a British police officer who was born in India. He was hated by large numbers of people in Moulmein‚ in Lower Burma as the British had colonized Burma. One day he was notified that there was an elephant roaming around the street. The elephant was however not wild but everyone were frightened since it was enormous and disrupting. It made people even more detest when they misunderstood
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Sharply‚ 1994‚ Tourism‚ Tourist & Society; The Socio Cultural Impact of Tourism‚ p.189 Info Birmanie‚ March 2011‚ Report on Tourism in Burma‚ Available at [ www.info-birmanie.org] Richard Sharpley‚(1994)‚ Tourism and Society‚ The Socio-cultural Impacts of Tourism‚ ELM Publication‚ Kings Ripton J.Bray‚(2002)‚ Corporate Environmental Strategy‚ Volume(9)‚ No(2)‚ Burma ; The Dilemmas of Commercial and Humanitarian Engagement [Online] Joan.C.Herderson ‚ (2010) the Politics of Tourism in Myanmar‚ Routledge
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Orwell worked as a British imperial policeman in Burma for five years but he finally returned to England again because he recognized the injustices of the British imperial rule in Burma and could not suffer the guilt of oppressing the Burmese anymore. Later‚ Orwell spent the next twenty years as a writer; the essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” set in the Burma of the 1920s and written in 1936‚ is one of his most famous works. In the early twentieth century‚ Burma was still a colony of Britain but anti-imperialism
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Thailand is a country located at the center of the Indochina in Southeast Asia. Thailand enjoy a tropical wet and dry or savannah climate. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos‚ to the east by Laos and Cambodia‚ to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia‚ and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma. Thailand is 513‚000 km2 large with around 64 million people. The capital and largest city is Bangkok‚ which is Thailand’s political‚ commercial‚ industrial and cultural
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he has witnessed and experienced‚ and decides to share his feelings with the rest of the establishment through his writings. We understand that the author’s purpose is to show how degraded he feels by the events that took place that morning in Burma. Throughout his essay the author shows‚ that the prisoners are treated like animals. We see this when the author is describing the cells‚ he states‚ "We were waiting outside the condemned cells‚ a row of sheds fronted with double bars‚ like small
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