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kind of like being nice to people when other people aren't watching
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When Orwell relates his experience with the elephant in “Shooting an Elephant” it gives some insight into his own psyche as well as the structure of imperialism. In this moment, he criticizes imperialism, showing that the leaders are controlled by the masses just as much as, if not more so than, the other way around.
He describes himself as being despised by the Burmese people. He is a colonial policeman, and in this role, he is associated with imperial British rule, propped up by the threat of force. (Orwell himself served in the Indian imperial police for a time, so the narrator's voice is likely his own.) When the elephant tears through the bazaar, killing a coolie, the Burmese crowd demands that he shoot and kill it. He does not want to do this, because by the time he arrives on the scene, the elephant has calmed, and no longer poses a threat to anybody. Orwell reflects that, in order to appease the angry crowd, he has to fill the role that they expect of him, which is that of a hated "tyrant." This is the paradoxical nature of empire- he must compromise his morality, become what the Burmese people already think he is, or risk their laughter and scorn. For someone that has already determined that he hates British imperialism, the incident is profoundly unsettling, but in a "roundabout way enlightening." It underscores the duality of empire, a world in which a man like Orwell can, as he says in the account, hold remarkably contradictory feelings:
The incident illustrates that, whatever objections they may have to British rule, imperial officials have to be hated to be respected.
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Answer: okay I found this that says there was “a disease that is plaguing the Greeks brought on by the god Apollo after the Greeks disrespected his priest.”
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Answer:
B.
Explanation:
The excerpt is taken from the novel "Grendel" written by John Gardner.
The novel Grendel is a rendition of the epic Beowulf told from the point of view of Grendel, the antagonist.
<u>In the given excerpt, Grendel's word is depicting the theme of meaninglessness of life. At this point in the plot, Grendel was being beaten up by Beowulf. Beowulf starts to whisper in the ears of Grendel and Grendel starts to whimper and bawl. And Grendel states the given quote that represents that life is meaningless as revealed when Grendel let Beowulf win by jumping into the abyss and losing the hope to win.</u>
So, the correct answer is option B.
