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.