shooing a telephone

1. Orwell finds Imperialism to be terrible. However, he also feels contempt for the native peoples because they hate him so much despite his feelings towards imperialism. He feels similarly about his position, wanting to get out as fast as possible. Orwell specifically states that he wants to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest because they seem to only ever jeer at him.

2. He sees the real nature of Imperialism as being unnecessary, something done for personal gain yet not really advancing or improving the lives of individuals, instead harming those who are under the control of imperialists. The incident of the elephant makes him feel this way because this is very similar to how he acts upon the elephant. It's death wasn't necessary and was done because Orwell saw those around him and thought that doing it would make him more likable or something similar.

3.Orwell shoots the elephant anyways because of the social pressures set upon him by the townspeople who were waiting for him to do it. It's possible that he thought that there would be some sort of change for the townspeople would treat him better.

4. The older Europeans agree that he should have killed the elephant because in their older age they likely care less about the monetary value of the elephant and more about the well being of the people affected by it's rampage. The younger people however, disagree likely because they see that the elephant was worth "at least 100 pounds" and also care about the well being of the creature over the residents of Burma. At this point I don't feel bad for Orwell , yet I do not hate him either, because he made a decision not many would be able to make differently in his given situation.

5. Orwell believes that despite the fact that humans may be able to tell what's right morally, what they might do is different because of social pressures as well as the idea of personal gain, ect. I support this, as it's very evident in his own story, as well as in my own experiences when I want to gain the admiration of others, which can make me act much different than I would when thinking about the best ideas morally.