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Tag: Burma

Shooting an Elephant: A critical appreciation

Posted on July 1, 2016 by admin

George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant is one of the best short stories to have appeared during the last days of British colonialism. Partly autobiographical in its content, the short story narrates the difficulties encountered by a colonial officer in Burma, as is sent on a mission to shoot down a rampaging Elephant which has already…

George Orwell’s ‘Shooting an Elephant’ vis-a-vis ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and ‘Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl’

Posted on March 13, 2015 by admin

George Orwell was a champion of the underprivileged and the oppressed.  Through his essays, novels and journalism he amply illustrated his solidarity with the downtrodden, be it the natives of colonial Burma or the working classes of Britain or the peasantry of Soviet Russia.  The protagonists in most of his works of fiction are drawn…

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