George Orwell

In two essays George Orwell chronicles colonialism in Burma. In the 1920s Britain was still a world power at the head of a vast commonwealth - an empire over which the sun never set. Read the two essays, "Shooting an Elephant" and "A Hanging", that explore the author's experiences as a policeman in Burma (now Myanmar).

George Orwell, often considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, is the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. He coined such memorable phrases as big brother, cold war, thoughtcrime, thoughtpolice and doublethink.
When you are finished reading the two essays, "Shooting an Elephant" and "A Hanging", write a multi-paragraph post that compares and contrasts the views of colonialism - the colonists and the colonized - expressed by Orwell in the essays. Is there consitency? Are there discrepancies in Orwell's perceptions of the colonial experience?