Inside The Whale の感想
参照データ
タイトル | Inside The Whale |
発売日 | 販売日未定 |
製作者 | George Orwell |
販売元 | Penguin UK |
JANコード | 9780140011852 |
カテゴリ | » 洋書 » Special Features » all foreign books |
購入者の感想
In George Orwell’s famous essay "Inside the Whale" there are some sentences which Orwell seems to have written, apart from the main theme, namely, in parenthesis, but which I have been deeply impressed by : "It so happens that I have seen the bodies of numbers of murdered men--I don’t mean killed in battle, I mean murdered".
Incidentally, also in "Shooting an Elephant", similar sentences are inserted in the same way: "Never tell me, by the way, that the dead look peaceful. Most of the corpses I have seen looked devilish."
What do these sentences mean? In 1922, Orwell went to Burma as assistant district superintendent in the Indian Imperial Police. He served in a number of country stations and at first appeared to be a model imperial servant. Yet as he realized how much against their will the Burmese were ruled by the British, he felt increasingly ashamed of his role as a colonial police officer.
As he writes in "Shooting an Elephant", "The wretched prisoners huddling in
Incidentally, also in "Shooting an Elephant", similar sentences are inserted in the same way: "Never tell me, by the way, that the dead look peaceful. Most of the corpses I have seen looked devilish."
What do these sentences mean? In 1922, Orwell went to Burma as assistant district superintendent in the Indian Imperial Police. He served in a number of country stations and at first appeared to be a model imperial servant. Yet as he realized how much against their will the Burmese were ruled by the British, he felt increasingly ashamed of his role as a colonial police officer.
As he writes in "Shooting an Elephant", "The wretched prisoners huddling in