Rhetorical Analysis of Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant"

<Tab/>While reading the essay Shooting an Elephant, first published in 1936 by Eric Blair under the pen name of George Orwell, one gets captivated by the intricate web of rhetoric that Blair weaves throughout the piece. <Tab/>Surely, the reason this essay keeps the attention of the reader so well is because Blair writes with an unmistakably strong exigency. It is this need of his to tell …

…breakthrough he had that dislodged the foundation of what they were doing in that foreign country. Blair makes the audience ask themselves "Why, why not tell them?" And perhaps many of the readers will come to the right conclusion: that instead of being too hasty, Blair chose to carefully organize his words to achieve a more powerful effect and later unfold it to them, and all others, through his writing and skilled use of rhetoric.