Podcasts that mention 📚 Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays by George Orwell

So you have uh consider the lobster, David Foster Wallace, 2003, and then uh shooting an elephant by George Orwell. I think it's 1936.

Michael Dean mentions George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant" when comparing it to David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster" as examples of essays analyzed in his framework.

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I teach 'Shooting an Elephant' today by George Orwell. I love 'Homage to Catalonia,' but there are parts of it where he talks about what it was like as a colonial administrator, knowing colonialism was wrong. It’s a lot like Thompson—he was caught up in enforcing it, and it shows how it destroys him as a way to argue against it.

The guest discusses teaching 'Shooting an Elephant' by George Orwell, drawing parallels between the themes of colonialism in the work and the experiences of Hunter S. Thompson.

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my dad uh he grew up in a very poor part of the north of england which is wigan orwell actually wrote a book about it the road to wigan pier talking about the deprivation of that of that particular part of the world

Francis Foster mentions George Orwell's book 'The Road to Wigan Pier' in the context of his father's working-class background in Wigan.

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I go back to orwell constantly because i feel like this book answers so many of these questions And what scares me about the orwell book is when winston the protagonist this is the winston smith is being tortured by o'brien the tyrant and and and every one of us has got fear is imagine your worst fear in the world... and the t tyrants have figured out that they have... winston... uh they've put a cage on his face and they put a rat the biggest fear of winston is a rat and he says two plus two equals five Please tell us that two plus two equals five When says no no two plus two equals four and the tyrant opens up the door and the rats coming towards his face and finally winston says okay two plus two is whatever you want it to be two plus two is whatever you want just don't put the rat in my face None of us are that strong

James O'Keefe refers to 'the orwell book' (1984) and recounts the torture scene involving Winston, O'Brien, and the rat, using it as a metaphor for coercion and the limits of human resistance to forced denial of truth.

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