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What is Colonialism about?

In "Shooting an Elephant," Orwell explores how colonialism corrupts both the colonized and colonizers. As a British police officer in Burma, the narrator feels pressured by the local population to conform to their expectations of colonial authority and shoot an elephant, despite not wanting to. By wearing the "mask" of his role and acting in ways not true to himself to impress the natives, his identity becomes shaped by the role over time. The elephant represents the death of British power and ideals in the

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