Culture And Society Orwell Analysis

1. The name of this Unit as well as the theme is Culture and Society. Consider the three essays we have read for this week, and explain the relevance of the Orwell, Gansberg, and Rhode essays on our culture and our society. These essays relate to the theme of culture and society, in how society can judge someone. In Orwell's essay, the main character was mainly concerned of how the "natives" would view and treat him if he did not shoot the elephant. He felt incredible pressure from the crowd that had gathered in the hopes of witnessing a spectacle and he did not want to feel like a fool in their eyes. Gansber's essay relates to the theme, in how no one called the police because they were worried of how they would be perceived, even if someone was murdered. As a culture we have also become more isolated in ourselves, consequently making it not common to reach out and help someone in need. Rhode's essay related to the theme in how our culture and society discriminates against people. It describes how it has become a cultural norm for people to be discriminated when they apply for a job, work in the job, or culturally based on their appearance. She provides studies and real stories of this discrimination and how it has become a norm in today's society.

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He shot the elephant for the wrong reasons. If the elephant had still been rampaging and endangering people, then I would support his actions. The problem that I have was that the elephant, Orwell had deduced, was mostly, if not completely, out of "musk" and would not have been a threat any longer. He not only impacted his life, brutally killed an elephant, and impacted the way the public saw him, but he also took away the elephant's owner's source of income. That elephant was worth a lot to the owner alive because he was a work elephant. By shooting the elephant, Orwell took that source of income from the owner and costing him hundreds of