In Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) he displays the imperial administration's ambivalence concerning his action of destroying an elephant. On the one hand, it was his legal responsibility because the elephant had murdered a local "Coolie." On the other hand, killing the elephant is tantamount to destroying the means of production, which from a utilitarian point of view is a great crime. Orwell exposes the late-Victorian uncertainty over their true purpose as rulers - whether to uphold some truth-value embedded in the legal-rational state, or simply to maintain the utility of their dominion. This opposition between rational and utilitarian justification can be equated to the collapse of metaphysical truth to the realm of meaning-from the Idea of the True to the utility of communication within postmodern linguistic philosophy. For examples, consider Wittgenstein and Derrida.
The narrator's cultural background as a colonial police officer in Burma influences his feelings towards the elephant. He feels pressured to maintain authority and uphold the expectations of the native people, which leads him to shoot the elephant against his personal beliefs. This internal conflict highlights the impact of power dynamics and cultural expectations on individual actions.
Orwell faces the tricky aspect of pleasing the Burmese people by killing the elephant, just as he faces the trickiness of enforcing Imperialism when he doesn't agree with it.
(apex) He doesn't want to shoot the elephant but feels obligated to, just like he feels obligated to do a job he doesn't like.
Orwell is facing a moral struggle with shooting the elephant, just as he faces the moral struggle of serving a country he disagrees with.
A cultural background is the culture of something.
Africans around the world shared a cultural background -Apex
I'm not sure of his cultural background, but if somebody answers it that would be great. I'm actually doing a project on him.
Africans around the world shared a cultural background -Apex
Jewish
Where you were born and how you were nurtured
Suburbian.
Where you were born and how you were nurtured
Jewish
Socio-cultural and psycho-personal background has an impact on the communication process. For example, how we communicate non-verbally is often cultural.
There is no cultural background to brakdance. Brakdance is not defined by any dictionary and should not be inquired upon unless disclosed by the US government.
hispanic american