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Consider George Orwell's novels, like Animal Farm and 1984, and his other essays and memoirs, such as Homage to Catalonia, Burmese Days, and "Politics and the English Language."
Consider the film Gandhi among other texts about resistance to colonialism in South Asia.
Consider books about Myanmar/Burma, such as Pascal Khoo Thwe's From the Land of Green Ghosts, Justin Wintle's Perfect Hostage, Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace, and Wendy Law-Yone's The Road to Wanting.
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The Question and Answer section for Shooting an Elephant is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Orwell is a policeman, a representative of the British regime and an occupier of Burma: he was the face of oppression and subjugation.
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been...
The narrator's dilemma was whether or not he should shoot the elephant. The elephant, which had recently been ravaging the bazaar and had killed a man in its rampage was now calm. Thus, Orwell, was torn between shooting the animal who was deemed...
The power dynamic of the colonizer-colonized is reversed in this instance as Orwell feels himself, not a puppet of the Empire, so much as a puppet of the crowd. It’s them for whom he must perform. In that way, they are the ones with power. This is...
