EXPLORATION OF RACISM AND STEREOTYPES: A POSTCOLONIAL REPRESENTATION OF GEORGE ORWELL’S SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT

Abstract

The current examination is an investigation of George Orwell's article "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) through a postcolonial point of view. The Postcolonial hypothesis of racial generalizing propounded by Said (1977) and Bhabha (1994) has been applied to investigate racial generalizing. The scientists have inspected Shooting an Elephant to discover the occurrences of the racial bias appeared against individuals of Burma and have likewise brought to surface the extreme conflict of societies, strict qualities, and doubles of shading, skin, and race which at long last turned out to be more awful and driven individuals to partner against the Whites. This conflict at last got answerable for the finish of English guideline in Burma. The provincial and supreme guideline has brought forth the "idea of race" (Youthful, 2003: 2) since they expand such anthropological hypotheses which depicted the colonized individuals as substandard, crude, unsophisticated, and unfit to care for themselves. George Orwell's shooting an Elephant is a postcolonial article. It has large amounts of numerous episodes that uncover racial bias, and social othering against the locals of Burma because of Whites. The Whites extended themselves as better and enlightened with an onus than manage and to motivate the natives having a place with other ethnic foundations until they can have their steady balance on the planet