Category: George Orwell

When reading the two sources it is clear that the writers have contrasting perspectives and views on elephants and how they behave due to their diverse circumstances. George Orwell (in his Shooting An Elephant) is given the responsibility to go and find a peaceful tame elephant but has been followed by a sea of people…

Orwell is a police officer in Burma. So a police officer’s job is to preserve peace in such a place. And the elephant is wreaking havoc, so the locals in Burma expect him to do his job, so he shoots the elephant even though it is against his will. I think it’s circumstantial and social…