Question

bring out the metaphorical elements in tha easy, shooting an elephant​

Answer 1

Answer:

In describing the scene in which he shoots the elephant, Orwell says, “The crowd grew very still, and a deep, low, happy sigh, as of people who see the theatre curtain go up at last, breathed from innumerable throats" (34). The hushed crowd and the reference to the drawn curtain is an explicit simile for theatre. Orwell has previously stated that as a colonial policeman, he feels as though he must play a role for the Burmese people. In this passage we see the relationship between performer and audience in action.But in falling he seemed for a moment to rise, for as his hind legs collapsed beneath him he seemed to tower upwards like a huge rock toppling, his trunk reaching skyward like a tree” (34).

In this passage in which the elephant is killed, Orwell uses similes connoting elements of inanimate nature—the collapsing body like "a huge rock" and the trunk like "a tree." The effect of these similes reinforces Orwell's description of the elephant as a peaceful creature and the killing of it as a form of vandalism.