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Published: 05.11.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'George Orwell and Shooting an Elephant', 1.
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To Be or Not TO Be
George Orwell hated all Burmans and the British Empire. He imperializes them into his stories and makes the British and Burmans look like fools. He describes killing the elephant and it betrays him killing the British Empire by saying "He seemed to tower upward like a huge rock toppling, his trunk reaching skyward like a tree"(Orwell/741). He describes the elephant falling down for the last time with his tusks up high like the British Empire and the collapsing and Orwell loves every minute of it. …

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