Shooting an Elephant

Shooting An Elephant

Orwell notes that, as a young man serving in Burma, he didn't even know that the British Empire was "dying." Later on, he decribes the horrible way the elephant dies. Is there any relationship between these two (2) kinds of "dying?"

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One can make a connection with the death of the elephant and the rebellion against the rule of the British. The Burmese people demand and clamor for elephant's death in the same way they would clamor for the death of the behemoth British Empire's rule in their country. They would like to see the British Empire suffer.

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