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 ... Orwell is not forced to acknowledge these atrocities until he is put into the position to shoot an elephant. After, the elephant kills a native, the Burmese people look for the elephant to be kill...

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... but never take part in the actual fighting, like how the natives never took part in shooting of the elephant. The narrator speaks of how he is so against imperialism, but gives in to the natives by shooting the elephant to prove he is strong and to avoid humiliation. The natives only use the narrator to attain the elephants meat and tusks. The narrator became the crowds puppet being "pushed to ... and fro by the will of those yellow ... faces behind." (Orwell 1837) In "The Battle of the ... ...

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... believed in contributing to society's expectations of a high-quality performance. In Orwell's, Shooting an Elephant,? he took on the position of a British police officer in Burma although he, theoretically - and secretly, of course- I was all for the Burmese and all against there oppressors, the British.? (Orwell 132). He took this job from the beginning of his manhood because he was young and ill-educated as to ... to America's victory. In actuality Orwell felt conflicts within himself because he tried to justify the killing of the elephant as being a part of his job: And afterwards I ...

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... 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...

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