Shooting An Elephant By George Orwell Analysis

Every author puts a great deal of effort in making their work successful, meaningful and symbolic however, some author do excellent job in achieving this goal and on the other hand some might be unsuccessful to achieve the goal. In the essay, “Shooting an Elephant”, the author George Orwell has worked extremely hard to express and relate the meaning of the symbols to the story. In the essay, the protagonist character George Orwell is the Indian imperial police officer in Burma and is hated by Burmese people because he is a part of the British Empire who is the oppressor of the Burmese people. Orwell does show sympathy of native people of Burma but he cannot do anything else to change the minds of the British Empire. Afterwards, he comes to the point where he has to make an unwanted decision of shooting an elephant due to the pressure of the Burmese People and also Orwell himself did not want to lose his pride to the native people of the Burma. Throughout the essay, George Orwell has used several symbols effectively such as, the

In the essay, many symbols are used such as, the elephant, dead coolie, George Orwell and rifle which have their specific meaning to the story and are understandable to the reader. George Orwell has used each symbol with reliable support in the essay that had effective meaning to it. For example, the elephant symbolized how Burmese people were pressurized to work under colonial British rules of the British Empire. The dead coolie represented the justification for Orwell to shoot an elephant. Moreover, the rifle symbolized the power of the British Empire that was misused by Orwell to put his superior personality towards Burmese people. All in all, these all symbols were incorporated in an outstanding way so that symbols were easy to understand and find out the meaning behind each of