Zachary Conners SUNY – Eng. 12 Mrs. O’Malley December 15, 2014 “Shooting an Elephant” is a persuasive rhetorical piece written by George Orwell used to describe Orwell’s feelings about imperialism. Orwell uses pathos, logos, and ethos to convey his feelings towards imperialism and how destructive it can be. Born 1903, George Orwell, novelist, essayist, and critic, was best known for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty- Four. Son of a British servant, Orwell spent most of his days in India, where his father had been stationed.
As an opponent of political and social injustice, author George Orwell shows his disapproval for political corruption and political injustice through the display of pathos. Likewise, in “Shooting an Elephant,” readers detect George Orwell’s subjective opinions on imperialism through persuasion using pathos. Throughout the essay, the narrator uses expressions and feelings of fear, hatred, anxiety, doubt, and distress at the fact that he is in a position of no authority to inform the audience of his disapproval.
Hannah Edmiston Boudreau AP Language Friday 25 September, 2015 Shooting an Elephant Analyzing Rhetorical Devices Shooting an Elephant, written by George Orwell in 1936, describes his experience working as a British officer located in Moulmein, Burma. He writes his essay to reveal the cruelty and disastrous outcome of imperialism he witnesses. Orwell uses strong resource of language such as symbolism, metaphors and imagery to express his disdain for British imperialism. Orwell uses symbolism to connect the character of the elephant to the effects of imperialism.
Drawing parallels, George Orwell’s essay ‘Shooting an Elephant’; highlights that through confronting events such as executions, discovery can have unforeseen outcomes. These texts utilise their varying mediums to
A Critical Analysis of the Rhetorical Strategies Used in Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”. In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”, the author begins with a definite statement about his views toward British Imperialism. Orwell uses pathos to appeal to the readers emotions about his situation and also uses logos when trying to decide on shooting the elephant. His powerful technique of illustrating the message, “Imperialism was an evil thing” and that it affects both the oppressor and the oppressed is effective with the use of description, classical appeals, extended metaphors, and rhetorical devices.
First of two start of, the most rhetorically influential element of this story is the authors background. While George Orwell is a well-known for being an English author and journalist, he is very famous for being a political satirist. In this story, the audiences can see Orwell’s personal opinions on social and political views. In “Shooting an Elephant,” readers detected Orwell’s opinions on imperialism through the narrator’s display of pathos. Throughout the story, the narrator shows feelings of hatred, doubt, fear, anxiety, and distress at the fact that he is in a position of mocked authority.
Furthermore, the essay Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell, is a reflective story on Orwell, that has concerns on the British Empire and
Additionally, the author giving back all of the option and consideration to his readers by stating "I 'm curious whether the reader can identify with any of these reactions and acknowledgments and discomforts"(Wallace 120). To sum up, Wallace mentions some arguments in his essay, discussing the best way to treat a lobster. Particularly, some of the arguments that he points are how lobster used to become a low-class food and the animal rights(Lobster). Wallace has succeeded deliver the message; cooking lobsters alive is harming them and it is not ethical how people treat the animal
Grann and Orwell's writing uses empathy to create perspective, putting the reader in the place and mind of the protagonist. In Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell, the narrator is faced with the task of killing an elephant that has gone wild. He does not want to kill the elephant, yet the roaring crowd leads him to ending the animal's life. He even calls the elephant grandmotherly. To shoot a peaceful, living creature seems wrong.
Both Orwell and Wallace utilize humans’ understanding and relationship to animals to bring their arguments forward in their essays. Both authors describe how humans tend to brutalize animals for humans’ personal gain. In Orwell’s essay, the author talks about a chained up, tame elephant that was shot to death with a “.44 Winchester, [a gun] much too small to kill an elephant” because the elephant “was ravaging the bazaar” (Orwell 437). Likewise, in Wallace’s essay, Wallace expounds on the happenings of the Maine Lobster Festival and about how lobsters are boiled alive and killed for humans’ culinary enjoyment at home but especially during said festival. Consequently, both authors address the abuse and unnecessary killing of animals solely for another species to selfishly benefit.
In George Orwell 's short story titled “Shooting an Elephant” presented an event that changed a countries civilization. George’s life in Burma, and the prejudice placed by the people he oppressed inspired his writing through the uses of setting, style, and theme. In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell no specific event influenced this piece rather it was an accumulation of many small events of prejudice and hate by an opposing group of
The motive of this essay is a protest regarding economic and social injustices. Additionally, the ethos of this story is that Mr. Orwell struggles within himself to find the means to kill the elephant. Economically it was a burden to the owner and an injustice to kill the animal for the sole reason of the pressures. The pathos can be presented towards the author is said that he must kill an elephant for the sole purpose of not looking like a fool. Logos in this story are that he used the death of the coolie to justify
George Orwell, a British Writer famous for “Animal Farm”, “Shooting the Elephant”, and “1984”. George Orwell usually focuses his writings on social injustice and intense opposition of totalitarianism. Last semester in Morrison academy, I led a discussion about the book “Shooting an elephant”; focusing on imperialism and oppression of the colonist. In this short story, George Orwell was a police officer in Burma. Furthermore, he hated how the colonists were treated.
“Shooting an Elephant” is one of the most important essays in English literature. It was written by George Orwell in 1931. The author of the story was a British colonial police officer in Burma, Myanmar, at the time the narrative was inspired by his own experiences. The author talked about what he himself had to endure while working here, especially after the event of shooting an elephant in front of the Burman people. Meanwhile, he did not want to do it.
While trying to get their freedom and create the perfect utopia, animals found themselves in a difficult situation. They managed to cast out Mr Jones, but another dictator came to the farm, but this time it was one of them. By creating animalism, the pigs used an illusion in order to satisfy their greed and lust for power. George Orwell is more interested in political psychology rather than with individual characters.
