Shooting an Elephant
Which sentence from "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell best conveys the author's overall message regarding imperialism?
Which sentence from "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell best conveys the author's overall message regarding imperialism?
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AFor at that time I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked up my job and got out of it the better.
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BAll I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make my job impossible.
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CFeelings like these are the normal by-product of imperialism; ask any Anglo-Indian official, if you can catch him off duty.
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DAnd it was at this moment, as I stood there with the rifle in my hands, that I first grasped the hollowness, the futility of the white man’s dominion in the East..