George Orwell's A Hanging
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In George OrwellÆs essay ôA Hanging,ö an Indian condemned to the gallows is hanged before a crowd of prisoners, warders, magistrates and other onlookers. The narrator is a European magistrate in Burma during British rule. While most Europeans imposed their manners and values on Hindus, the narrator goes through a transformation during the hanging. Initially he appears sympathetic and empathetic with the condemned manÆs plight, ôwith a sudden snap, one of us would be goneùone mind less, one world lessö (Orwell 2). After the prisoner is dead, the narrator appears to ôdo as the natives doö in using humor to distance himself from the awful reality of what he has just viewed, ôI found that I was laughing quite loudly. Everyone was laughingö (Orwell 3). Orwell uses this transformation in the narrator to expose the absurdity of capital punishment being used by an allegedly ôcivilizedö society. Initially, the narrator in ôA Hangingö seems to have great empathy for the condemned prisoners. Setting is used to show this. The morning carries ôa sickly light,ö the men are in quarters ôlike small anima
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