Shooting An Elephant

Shooting an elephant by George Orwell, an anti-imperialist writer, is a political piece of work that explores the dystopian world of the British imperialism in 19th century India. This essay opens in Moulmein, an underdeveloped city in Lower Burma, which is governed by the British Empire. Orwell, the narrator of the story, is a colonial…

Everywhere we look there are people that are trying to define the type of people we are. Society sometimes pressures us into molding into these profiles. It can feel suffocating as we are putting on a mask to fit the pre-set social norm. In both personal essays Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell and The…

Human nature is ‘the fundamental dispositions and traits of humans.’ (“Human Nature.” Merriam-Webster) Human nature can be divided into two spheres: good and bad. Good human nature means to have desires like doing something which can make oneself or others feel good while bad human nature means to have bad desires like selfishness, irritation, abhorrence,…