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George Orwell Shooting An Elephant Analysis

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Orwell wants to convey the message by explaining that imperialism is evil. It shames people, reducing them to the low status in their own country. Also, it pushes people into making immoral or unethical decisions to maintain their superiority. In “Shooting an Elephant," the narrator acts against his conscience to save face for himself and his fellow imperialists. He was a European policeman in Burma, and the Burmese feeling toward all Europeans was extraordinarily negative, and he knew that the Burmese people disliked him. He remembers that the event of shooting an elephant helped him understand the real nature of imperialism, the real motives for which tyrannical governments act. In the beginning, he did not want to shoot the elephant because
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