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Summary Of George Orwell's Shooting An Elephant

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In George Orwell’s, “Shooting an Elephant,” a story about his experiences as a police officer in imperialist Burma, he utilizes his narrative to depict the effects of the skewed role of the imperialists and the subjects in order to undermine the benefits of Imperialism. He also and establishes the idea that by taking away the freedom of others, he takes away his own because he is forced to conform to what the natives want in order to maintain his authority. The British imperialists are encouraged to see these flaws in the Imperialist system and to try and fix these problems at their source. This argument is solidified when he writes, “The people expected it of me and I had got to go and do it; I could feel their two thousand wills pressing
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