The psychological conflict of the narrator in the essay “Shooting an Elephant"
‘Shooting an Elephant’ is an autobiographical essay in which Orwell describes in realistic and graphic details his own experience in B u rma during the British colonial rule in the sub-continent as sub-divisional police officer. In the essay the author very skillfully and opt-fully delineates his inner conflict and psychological complexity. From the analysis of his mental conflict and p sychological complexity we find him in the midst of predicament. Orwell was a sub-divisional police officer in Moulmein in lower Burma. He was hated by a large number of people. There was anti-European feeling in the town. People did not have the courage to start a riot, but they could insult the Europeans or laugh at the narrator. When he was tripped on the football field by some Burmese players, the author would get nervous at seeing the yellow faces of the native specially the young Buddist priests sneering at him. He was upset by the impertinent behavior of the Burmese. He was so annoyed tha...