Analysis Of George Orwellsshooting An Elephant

I was a class monitor back to my middle and high school. The job of a class monitor is to make sure that everything within the class goes well when the teacher is absent, such as keeping the class quiet during self-study, and looking for anyone who is cheating on a test. It’s not hard to imagine that such a job risks a high possibility of having conflicts with both my classmates and teachers. If either side think I am favoring the other, it’s readily for me to be criticized for not being fair or responsible enough. So I was facing a problem of who should I lay my loyalty to. The dilemma is just like what George Orwell describes in his essay, Shooting an Elephant. At first, he says â€Å"†¦I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing†¦Ã¢â‚¬  Because he sees how brutal imperialism can be and the way the local people suffer from it, and â€Å"secretly†¦ I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors.† But meanwhile he also says â€Å"the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist Priest’s chest,† which at the same time demonstrates his aversion to the local residence. It is hard to imagine that such two contradictory statements are from the same person, but I can well understand the conflict Orwell has for the similar situation I have above. On one side, I feel ashamed to be a teacher pet and I want to maintain a good relationship with my peers, so I will try to carry out my responsibility in a way that is more acceptable for my classmates.