CONFESSION OF GUILT AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN GEORGE ORWELL’S ‘SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT’
Abstract
George Orwell whose asal Eric Arthur Blaire was a novelist, essayist and critic who addressed the hottest issues of his time including imperialism, fascism and communism. Present story Shooting an Elephant is also one of his masterpieces like Animal Form, Hanging and the Burmese Days. In the present essay he‘s talked about the imperialism, the same sort of tyranny that existed in world history over last four or five centuries. Though there have been coming the certain changes but the ultimate goals have been the same that were to reap the advantages of the colonized and to exploit the natives as well. The present essay has double fold importance as apart being an essay it‘s a biographical piece of writing too. Where there he has been serving for five years in British imperial force. In this paper, the researcher will prove the conflicting feelings of the writer, his confession and the role of cultural differences that lead him to undertake such a heavy decision to crush a valued piece of property (an elephant).
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