![]() He is clear that his son's maturation is a sign that White is getting closer to death. In his son's image, he no longer sees himself. By the essay's end, White has come full circle, accepting his own mortality. The essay moves in a non-chronological way, as White weaves in and out of the past and present, following the flow of his mental process, or as what many would call stream-of-consciousness. When he arrives back at the lake, he comments on how everything has stayed the same. He describes all the great memories that were made with his family at this lake, specifically mentioning the times with his father. This essay is a depiction of the writer’s experience as he visits a lake once again – the lake that he has been fond of since childhood. White and first published in 1941, is a story about how the narrator, who grew up going to a lake in Maine, returns with his son when he is older. In this study, the relationship between the representer or Westerners and the represented or Easterners is expounded in Shooting an Elephant according to Said’s Orientalism.Once More to the Lake, a narrative non-fiction essay written by E. One characteristic which is shared among these works is the author’s conflicting feelings within them about the Orient and Orientals from European’s lens. One of Orwell’s major concerns during his life was the issue of imperialism and colonialism which is reflected in many works such as Burmese Days, Shooting an Elephant, Marrakech, and Hanging. ![]() Orwell as a Western writer with firsthand experience -he was born in India and served as a cog in British imperial machine for five years-never managed to disconnect wholeheartedly with his deep imperial roots. The arbitrary and fabricated line between the Self (Occident) and the Other(Orient) in which the former is privileged and grasps the upper hand to define, reconstruct andre-present the latter, comes at the center of Postcolonialism. He underscores the special place of the Orient in the Western canon. It also humbly approaches to refute Barry Hindess' arguments supporting neoimperialism.Įdward Said in his groundbreaking work Orientalism, which later becomes a bible for Postcolonialists, elucidates how the Western scholars, writers, scientists, philologists, administrators among others take it for granted the binary distinction between the West and its Other. In this regard, it studies his revealing short story "Shooting an Elephant". We discover the seeds of imperialism under the mask of anti-imperialism. Here, we discover the inevitable dilemma in a disguised imperialist. ![]() ![]() This paper, I believe, will lead us to an almost different conclusion. George Orwell is popularly known to be an anti-imperialist writer. Through dominance with these, they have been, to a great extent, successful in establishing their racial and cultural superiority. But the ultimate objective has remained the same-to rule and exploit the natives with their multifaceted dominance-technological, economic and military. Throughout the period, the imperialists have changed their grounds and strategies in imperialistic rules. The world has moved from the colonial to post-colonial era or neoimperialism. Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over last four or five centuries.
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