“Must” is when male elephant is sexually active and extremely violent, so it is dangerous for it to be around people. The elephant does eventually kill a man in the street. The man’s mangled body lay in the mud with his back skinned off. “The friction of the great beast's foot had stripped the skin from his back as neatly as one skins a rabbit.”(Orwell). The danger this elephant brought to the people was evident.
George was a British sub-divisional police officer in the town of Lower Burma, Moulmein. George was against imperialism; he believed it was an evil thing and the sooner he got rid of his job the better. One day he was asked by the sub-inspector to take care of a crazed elephant at the other end of town. It’s unfortunate that when he got there he decided, by pressure of a group, to shoot the elephant instead of letting it live. I have been in situations such as this and, over time, I have taught myself how to not give into the complications of life.
Orwell feels like an outcast rebel, he wants the Burmese to stand up against the British Empire. Young Orwell sets the tone of how he is torn between doing his job and doing what was morally and ethically right. (shooting the elephant or letting it live) 3. Some analogies that Orwell uses are: the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow, grandmotherly. They watched me like a conjurer about to perform a trick.
Why don’t you come and be saved? Oh, Lamb of God! Why don’t you come? (180).” In “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell illustrates the peer-pressure put on him by explaining the number of people following him. He first starts by saying: “As I started forward practically the whole population of the quarter flocked out of the houses and followed me (287).” The crowd misunderstood him when he was holding the gun.
He also says that the Buddha is a barbarian and that his bones should be cast into a fire and that his evil should be rooted out. Tang Emperor Wu, an Edict on Buddhism also did not like the spread of Buddhism. He said that Buddhism was poisoning Chinese culture and that it wears out the peoples strength, pilfers their wealth, and causes people to abandon their lords and parents. All these things that both Han Yu and Tang Emperor Wu said about Buddhism clearly proves
At first, they assumed he was a tree spirit of some sort who was killing the tree because he was hungry so they wanted to get food for him. Without realizing it, he laughed at the foolish human’s thought, which caused them to stop and become even more cautious of him. “They all began shouting at each other .One of the horses neighed and reared up, and for some crazy reason they took it for a sign. The king snatched an ax from the man beside him and, without any warning, he hurled it at me.” This is when Grendel tried to communicate with them but the humans became more scared. Grendel, of course had no intention to kill or hurt these men even though it would have been an easy task for him.
We are left at the end wondering if shooting the elephant was really the best action for Orwell to have taken. Did shooting the elephant begin to cut his ties with the imperial force, or with his moral disposition? His ambivalence nonetheless brings out his true character and vulnerability. Furthermore, we see him as a victim, being influenced by “the army” of Burmans, although he in fact is the murderer. This alone shows us the persuasion of ambivalent tone, ironic, but true.
After a rampant elephant kills a man, Orwell is in a position where he feels he has to kill the elephant. George Orwell does not want to shoot the elephant, yet the circumstance drives him to it. If I were in his position, I would not have given in to
There is a story in the past about a man named Chow Chu, who was often being compared with the tiger and the dragon, as people thought he was a threat to society. There was one time when Chow helped the villagers kill the dragon, but all the other villagers were happy as they thought Chow and the tiger both died in the fight. This made Chow realise other’s impression of him, and start to act properly and change himself. From this story, we could see how important realising the guilt in oneself is. According to H.G.Bohn, a fault confessed is half redressed.
Society already doesn’t favor Black men so the fact that he had taken the life of a white woman put even more fear into him than any other murder he could have committed. Had Mrs. Dalton been able to see and caught Bigger in Mary’s room Mary couldve been saved. When a group of people are oppressed ne of the effects is that they become afraid of the oppressor and Bigger’s fear ultimately lead to Mary’s death. The rat that is was in the Thomas family’s apartment in