Both authors arrived at the truth by using all of these techniques. While the imagery helps to display the struggles. Diction and sensory details, helped us by describing the emotional struggle between the subjects. These two authors used diction, imagery, and sensory details to arrive at the truth of their piece. ” This is how she shows the looking foward from Tamara’s death and to put it in the past. He explained the struggles of a “limp” swan by telling how it was difficult to untangle the wrapped up neck and straighten it out.Īs Williams concludes this essay she says, “I did not look back. The diction chose by Williams has that of a depressing tone. In the short story, “Whistling Swan,” written by Terry Tempest Williams, the writer uses a swan in which he compares the death of Tamara Crocker Pulfer and the late miagration of the swan. In this study, the relationship between the representer or Westerners and the represented or Easterners is expounded in Shooting an Elephant according to Said’s Orientalism.With the repetition of imagery and sensory details we come to realize that these are the things of most importance to the author. One characteristic which is shared among these works is the author’s conflicting feelings within them about the Orient and Orientals from European’s lens. One of Orwell’s major concerns during his life was the issue of imperialism and colonialism which is reflected in many works such as Burmese Days, Shooting an Elephant, Marrakech, and Hanging.
Orwell as a Western writer with firsthand experience -he was born in India and served as a cog in British imperial machine for five years-never managed to disconnect wholeheartedly with his deep imperial roots. The arbitrary and fabricated line between the Self (Occident) and the Other(Orient) in which the former is privileged and grasps the upper hand to define, reconstruct andre-present the latter, comes at the center of Postcolonialism. He underscores the special place of the Orient in the Western canon. It also humbly approaches to refute Barry Hindess' arguments supporting neoimperialism.Įdward Said in his groundbreaking work Orientalism, which later becomes a bible for Postcolonialists, elucidates how the Western scholars, writers, scientists, philologists, administrators among others take it for granted the binary distinction between the West and its Other. In this regard, it studies his revealing short story "Shooting an Elephant". We discover the seeds of imperialism under the mask of anti-imperialism. Here, we discover the inevitable dilemma in a disguised imperialist. This paper, I believe, will lead us to an almost different conclusion. After reading the entire piece, write an ESSAY that discusses all the points and questions in the boxes. Some of the cottages were owned by nearby farmers, and. There were cottages sprinkled around the shores, and it was in farming although the shores of the lake were quite heavily wooded. George Orwell is popularly known to be an anti-imperialist writer. The lake had never been what you would call a wild lake. Through dominance with these, they have been, to a great extent, successful in establishing their racial and cultural superiority. But the ultimate objective has remained the same-to rule and exploit the natives with their multifaceted dominance-technological, economic and military. Throughout the period, the imperialists have changed their grounds and strategies in imperialistic rules. The world has moved from the colonial to post-colonial era or neoimperialism. Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over last four or five centuries.
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