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Orwell calls what he is doing in Lower Burma "the dirty work of Empire", and judges his shooting of the elephant finally as the product of the conflicting motivations behind his position and empire itself. Read "Shooting an Elephant" through the lens of Joan Didion in "On Morality." What are the "higher" moral beliefs that imperialists claimed? In what ways does Orwell’s essay refute these claims?

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