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The paper presents an analysis of Rudyard Kipling's poem White Man's Burden.... For the contemporary readers trained in a post-imperialist environment that is so critical and unyielding towards imperialism, it needs to be said that Kipling's poem ought to be analyzed.... hellip; It goes without saying that even a cursory student of literature tends to know that history plays an important role in the shaping of a literary work....
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Research Paper
This essay explores the morality of imperialism in Orwell's “shooting an elephant”.... This essay discusses that in “shooting an elephant,” George Orwell explores the moral consequences of imperialism in Burma, wherein because of imperialism several moralities emerged, which turned out to be an ironic cause of immoralities too.... As the police officer of “shooting an elephant” notes, “[t]he Burmese population had no weapons”....
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Essay
The essay “Victim and Perpetrator in George Orwell's shooting an elephant” shall seek to establish that Orwell's story destabilizes oversimplified definitions of perpetrator and victim within the paradigm of colonialism, as the narrator, seemingly powerful is crippled under the expectations of the empire.... It is perhaps significant that the chief victim of the actions of both the narrator and the indigenous onlookers is an elephant, a non-sentient being....
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Book Report/Review
In the paper “George Orwell's shooting an elephant” the author analyzes the story, which starts with a thoughtful introduction to the narrator's action where he comments about being a colonial policeman among British Burma within the twentieth century.... hellip; The author states that the action of shooting an elephant starts when the narrator gets a telephone call about an elephant destroying the Bazaar.... The action of shooting an elephant starts when the narrator gets a telephone call about an elephant destroying the Bazaar....
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Essay
This essay will argue how the story shows this role reversal, that the oppressor becomes the oppressed shooting an elephant: George Orwell's shooting an elephant is one of the best short stories to have appeared during the last days of British colonialism.... In shooting an elephant, the central fact is that of the inherent evilness and immorality of the imperialist project.... s orwell notes very poignantly in the story, when the imperialists use force and authority to suppress the locals, it is the imperialists who suffer more....
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Essay
The idea of this research emerged from the author's interest in how is this done that George Orwell's essay “shooting an elephant” tends to provide strong emotions.... George Orwell's essay “shooting an elephant” tends to provide strong emotions.... This strong emotion of dilemma was shown when he was called to respond to the report that a man was killed by an elephant in Musth.... This strong emotion of dilemma was shown when he was called to respond to the report that a man was killed by an elephant in Musth....
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Assignment
In the paper “Stylistic analysis of shooting an elephant by George Orwell” the author analyzes a narrated story that is in the form of an essay.... orwell uses the essay to create awareness to his readers about the self-destruction that is caused by the imperialist system of government.... The essay by George orwell is a clear evidence for being very ironic as the author has used situationally ironic style to emphasize on his ideas....
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Essay
This review “shooting an elephant" and "A Hanging" by George Orwell” looks into the difference and similarities between two famous artworks.... In the story; "A Hanging" the setting was mainly in a prison based jail while on the other hand the "shooting an elephant was in a Moulmein, in lower Burma where an Elephant went 'mute'.... In both stories, there are two main outstanding animals involved; an elephant in the “shooting an elephant" and a dog in the “A Hanging"....
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Literature review