Political anology
...e picture like a jigsaw puzzle. Both "Shooting an Elephant" and "Note of a Native Son" are so intense and compelling that the reader is naturally drawn into what Orwell and Baldwin are going through in their life. Their deep insight into their self- consciousness and awareness is extraordinary and helps us perceive what they are passing through in each psychological phase. We share their pain, struggle, despair, all of their emotions, with clenching of our hands, until the time comes when they finally reach their self-discovery. Orwell kills an elephant against his will only because he wants to avoid looking like a fool. On the surface, he acts like a dignified sahib who is strong-willed and has no fear of anything. However, in reality, he does not even have strength to follow his own will and just tries to follow what the Burmese expect of him with fear and trembling. He discovers that he is "an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind" and the power he holds in Burma is just a false image. Baldwin clearly tells us what he has discovered: "...this bitterness was folly. It was necessary to hold on to the things that mattered. The dead man mattered, the new life mattered; blackness and whiteness did not matter; ... Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law." It might take a long time and great strength to reach such a discovery. However, what both men have finally discovered through their bitter experience reminds us of the importance of probing our consciousness to the bottom and ascertaining what truly matters because if we just give ourselves to circumstance, without knowing what matters and what doesn't, we may be unconsciously led on a path of self- destruction. “Imperialism, The Highest Stage of domination ” Historically, these periods were superimpose, taking place generally as parallel series of events. Frequently, as a result, the distinction between their natures is simply not noticed and this leads to mistakes; with one process being taken as the causal link to the consequences of another. State imperialism is feudalism raised to a higher level. At this level the place of the feudal lord is occupied by, sometimes very sizeable, groups of people (Nobel over Serfs). Consider for example the role of Great Britain as the lord of the British Empire. Most frequently it is racism which serves in the capacity of an idea dividing the 'lordly' group from the rest of society. Nationalism too, although this is not obligatory, for there can also be other ideas; religious, party-political, in fact whatever idea, so long as it permits the raising of insuperable barriers and qualifications for entry into the elite. Such 'lordly' groups strive to secure their well-being through the maintenance and exploitation of the rest of society in serfdom. Economic imperialism ...