ve role in the part of imperialism. In perspectives he gives you a true feeling of imperialism and its divest affects among the people under imperialistic control.Orwell strongly implies that imperialists use their people for battle and have no remorse for them by using them as their little plastic fiqures that they send out to fight. He implies that the imperialist are being controlled by the Emporers and Queens, who in turn, never take part in the actual fighting as how the natives never took part in shooting of the elephant. Orwell speaks of how he is so against imperialism, but gives in to the natives by shooting the elephant to prove he is strong and to avoid humiliation. He implies that he does not want to be thought of as British, but he does not want to be thought the fool either. Orwell makes his decision to shoot the elephant appear to be reasonable but underneath it all he questions his actions just as he questions those of the British. He despised both the British Empire as well as the Burmese natives, making everything more complicated and complex. In his essy he shows us that the elephant represents imperialism; therefore, the slow destruction of the elephant must represent the slow demise of British Imperialism. ...
