Shooting Elephants, Serving Clients: An Essay on George Orwell and the Lawyer-Client Relationship
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Authors
Allegretti, Joseph
Issue Date
1994
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27
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Orwell begins his essay by describing the intense hatred of the Burmese for their European masters." In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people-the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me." Europeans were spit at, jeered at, and insulted. "As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so."|The petty humiliations were especially "perplexing and upsetting" to Orwell because he secretly agreed with the Burmese that British rule was a terrible evil. In his job as a police officer he saw "the dirty work of the Empire at close quarters." He knew first hand about the imprisonments, the floggings, the injustices...
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27 Creighton L. Rev. 1 (1993-1994)
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Creighton University School of Law