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George Orwell George Orwell has two very conflicting feelings towards the Burmese people throughout his essay. He writes “I thought that the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest’s guts”(Pg.680), and then he turns around and says “Theoretically—and secretly, of course—-I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British.”(Pg.680). George Orwell then goes on to say that feelings like this were not unusual side effects of imperialism. George Orwell was torn between two sides of himself. The sympathetic, guilty side of his inner self and the side of him that was just trying to get his job done and do it properly. George Orwell was suffering from an internal identity conflict, which was resolved by him shooting the elephant and leaving Burma to take a new job. George knew many hated him and that made him feel bad about who he was, the Burmese people treated him very poorly and that made him mad at them. George george, orwell, very, side, job, feelings, burmese, two, torn, people, made, knew, expected, empire, between, around, against, young, writes, wretched, world, utter, unusual, unsure, unaware, unable, turns, trying, tried, treated, towards, throughout, thoughts, thought, think, things, theoretically, take, sympathetic, suffering, stuck, stinking, silence, sides, shooting, share, served, sense, self