Historical Aspects
This colonized country was known as "The Jewel in the Crown," referring to its immense and varied resources to the empire.
What is India?
George Orwell wrote in "Shooting an Elephant" of this type of essay.
What is a reflective essay?
This ideology and movement holds that a nation should match a sovereign state, either through culture, history, and/or ethnicity.
What is nationalism?
Either of these titles corresponds to famous novels Orwell has written.
What is '1984' or 'Animal Farm'?
A late 19th-20th-century movement characterized by a self-conscious, radical break from traditional writing styles and societal conventions because of influences like industrialization and the disillusionment of World War I.
What is modernism?
Orwell is called to deal with an elephant going through this, which is a dangerous frenzy that periodically seizes male elephants.
What is must?
This term is synonymous with "king" or "ruler," and indicates the period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until independence of India and Pakistan in 1947.
What is the Raj?
From 1922 to 1927, this was Orwell's occupation in Burma, where he was responsible for maintaining order.
What is a colonial police officer?
Also known as the Burmese name for 'elephant keeper.'
These are the people who Orwell is representing via the slow, cruel death of the elephant, and it is connected to imperialism's ultimate goal with other subjugated countries.
Who are the colonized Indians?
The end result of Mahatma Gandhi's hunger strikes and non-violent protests, additionally influenced by the world critically viewing Great Britain (and its debts after WWII).
What is India's independence?
Orwell's political position on the British crown, when he "made up his mind that imperialism was an evil thing."
What is anti-imperialism?
The name of the British company that grew from a spice-trading venture into a dominant, brutal, imperial power. It controlled vast parts of India with a 260,000-man army, traded globally in textiles, tea, and opiumm until its dissolution in 1874 from revolts.
What is the East India Company?
The main reason why Orwell decides to shoot and kill the elephant, despite originally having no intention to.
What is the Burmese crowd, or expectations?
This governmental system involves maintaining a hierarchy where one stronger nation exploits the resources of a weaker one, and usually results in the loss of the latter's sovereignty.
What is imperialism?