Question

Discribe How did Bermese be have with Georage orwell in the foot hall? fell and with uropian lady in bazari

Answer 1

Orwell begins the essay with his narrator explaining his position in particular and the British presence in general: “I was hated by large numbers of people—the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.” Note the tension here between the pleasures of being important and the humiliation of being hated, for this represents the quandary of the imperial ruler. Power has a price. He elaborates a bit later on his attitude toward the job and the special insight it gives him: “ I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British. As for the job I was doing, I hated it . . . [because]. . . . [I] could see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters.” First he uses “hate” in the passive voice (he was hated) and then in the active voice (I hated), this providing another example of the tension that is part of imperialism. Finally, the narrator describes himself as a “lead actor,” “absurd puppet,” and says he “wears a mask,” all metaphors suggesting the unauthentic position he occupies as policeman. If he is a puppet, the British Empire is the puppeteer, and he a mindless object performing rather than an human being acting with authenticity.