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Shooting An Elephant: Inner Conflict
Assigned to serve as a subdivisional police officer in Moulmein in Lower Burma, George Orwell "had in mind that imperialism was an evil thing." He struggled for the realization of which side he was for. The mature Orwell would have surely known how Voltaire's dictum went, that "when one m ....
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.... exact piece it gives an additional motive as to why Orwell's better judgement was defeated, which was "to avoind looking a fool." If something were to happen such as the elephant changing his behavior, stomping him to death, the natives would laugh at him and "that would never do." Once the natives mocked their leader, who was Orwell at the time, his control would be gone. Orwell wasn't just protecting himself, but the idea of white domination.
Not only was Orwell experiencing inner conflict while in Burma, but conflict was also displayed in the outside world too. Whi ....
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