Comments by Simon Chaffee Most recent public comments by Simon Chaffee https://nowcomment.com/users/90664 “One is Orwell’s inner conflict, of which we are aware of from the opening sentence” (Keskinen 272) https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108701 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108701 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:44:30 -0400 “Yet the huge crowd of Burmese that have followed him force the narrator into a moment of crisis” (Marks 265) https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108679 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108679 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:44:13 -0400 “He is an anti-British Briton, an anti-Empire imperialist, and a figure of power put upon those by those he has nominal power over”(Marks 264) https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108651 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108651 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:42:19 -0400 “He has crossed from the unconsciousness of being the puppet of spontaneous collective killing to the consciousness of his own vulnerability to senseless imitation and participation mystique” (Bertonneau 263) https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108634 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108634 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:41:27 -0400 “The narrator now becomes the designated executioner on behalf of the crowd” (Bertonneau 262) https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108625 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108625 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:40:51 -0400 . https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108617 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2108617 “But the elephant, of course, is well known for its high level of intelligence, a fact which raises it out of the merely animal category; and the social structure of Burmese society under the British tends to underscore such quasi-human status.” (Bertonneau 261) Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:40:04 -0400 Imagery: Allows the reader to see what the character sees even though we are not with him. But also creates a painful emotion for the character and reader because we both realize that the elephant probably didn’t need to die. https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2101103 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2101103 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:59:56 -0400 Personification: Orwell describes the elephant as a grandmother showing the reader at that moment the elephant wouldn't hurt a fly and that there is no reason to shoot it. https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2101060 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2101060 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:58:37 -0400 Foreshadowing: Since the character requested a specific rifle used to kill elephants, most likely he is going to shoot the elephant. https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2101052 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2101052 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:57:47 -0400 Metaphor: Gives the reader an idea of the sheer power that an elephant has and shows how serious the situation is, because if the elephant stays loose it could kill even more people. https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2101045 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2101045 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:57:03 -0400 Situational Irony: Even though the man is European and gets treated terribly by the townspeople for being a European, he hates the British and supports the Burmese. https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2101033 https://nowcomment.com/documents/232007?scroll_to=2101033 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:55:46 -0400