Shooting an Elephant

Shooting an Elephant

What implicit, or suggested, idea about the law does Orwell express?

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In a job like that you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters. The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been Bogged with bamboos--all these oppressed me with an intolerable sense of guilt.

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Shooting an Elephant