IMPERIALISM AND WHY GEORGE ORWELL IS AGAINST IT.
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George Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant” was written in 1936. He was working at the time for the Police force (*imperial Indian police).
The elements that he presents in the story include the resentment and tension that he feels regarding the way this department had supremacy over the rest of the Indian natives and exploited, abused, and mistreated the citizens. In turn he, as a non-native, was also resented not only because he was part of this huge, abusive apparatus, but because he was a European.
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George Orwell, despite being a European, loathed the imperialism that the British colonialism stood for. In his story 'Shooting an Elephant' doesn't relate to the elephant only whom he had to unwillingly shoot, rather it relates to both ones that are colonized and those who are colonizing. He carried a guilt for being a part of the colonial administration as sub-divisional police officer in Burma as he 'was all for the Burmese and all against the oppressor'' As a police official he was hated by the oppressed in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter'. The narrative reflects his disdain for imperialism and it is due to Burmese people's resentment of him, he feels a strong dislike for them, which he would have never felt, had he not been working as an oppressor.
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