ful stance over the ants. At the end of the story Thoreaus thoughts on imperialism are those of experience. Thoreau says: I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of the day as if I had my feelings excited and harrowed by witnessing the struggle, the ferocity and carnage of human battle before my door. (Thoreau 1747) Imperialists use their people for battle and have no remorse for them. As Thoreau watches over them fighting he realizes the struggle behind human battle and sees imperialism through the perspective of the ferocity that they endure. Thoreau also comes to realize the extent of the Internecine struggles the imperialist and republicans have. Thoreau and Orwell both play distinctive roles in the parts of imperialism. In both perspectives each narrator gets a true feeling of imperialism and its divest affects among the people under imperialistic control. In both The Battle of the Ants and Shooting an Elephant the authors express their views on imperialism metaphorically through the use of animals and insects. The two different points of represented as either being an imperialistic force or by being an active part of imperialism....
