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Shooting an Elephant
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George Orwell
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Themes: Colonial Guilt and Tyranny
Themes: Moral Cowardice
Themes: Crowds and Power
Themes: The Theater of Empire
Themes: Imperialism
Themes: Colonialism
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Imperialism
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Paragraph 4
Shooting the Elephant
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Shooting an Elephant
Allegory of the Cave
Douglass's Narrative
Historical Context
Colonialism
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The Elephant
Dead Coolie
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Burmese Crowd
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George Orwell
Narrative Perspective
First Person
Setting
Lower Burma
