Shooting an Elephant George Orwell

“Shooting an Elephant,” a short story by George Orwell, is about a man who goes against his morals and succumbs to social pressures at the expense of an innocent elephant. The story, published in 1936, was influenced by the formal innovations and...

Though at times confusing, using a contradiction strongly establishes and emphasizes a point and often inspires an emotional response. In George Orwell’s essay, “Shooting an Elephant,” Orwell effectively delivers these contradictions, or...

Both George Orwell and Chimamanda Adichie have lived in and experienced colonization or a post-colonial environment first hand. Orwell served with the Imperialist police in Burma in the 1920s, before leaving this post due to an immense sense of...