Orwell_Elephant

Orwell Elephant In George Orwell's short story Shooting an Elephant, he writes about racial prejudice and injustice. Orwell, which is the author’s pen name, (his real name is Eric Arthur Blair,) is a police officer in Moulmein, lower Burma and takes place during the rainy season. Orwell is as much a victim as the people he protects and secretly loves, but because of circumstances he cannot control, he actually becomes part of the vicious cycle he abhors. The author is, "for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British" and “I hated it more bitterly than I can perhaps make clear.”(1539) Orwell feels caught in the middle of this cultural struggle. He sympathizes with the oppressed people, secretly feeling that Imperialism is wrong, and yet he is treated poorly by the Burmese, since they perceive him as one of their oppressors. He comes to terms with the role he plays in this vicious cycle of oppression, as an Imperial servant, and the influence it has on him to shoot the elephant. The Burmese people are treated as second-class citizens in their own elephant, orwell, people, burmese, shoot, author, part, much, white, victim, vicious, story, one, life, kill, feels, cycle, comes, being, after, actually, yet, whether, treated, struggle, secretly, represented, realize, put, powerless, position, police, oppressors, oppressed, officer