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Destructive Colonization Exposed in Shooting an Elephant and shopping mall of dark As a man is captured, his first instinct is to pass judgment and break free from his shackles and chains. Primal urges such as this often keep an eye on humans when they ar forced, as in capture, to rely on their just about basic instincts to survive. In this manner, natives in Africa acted upon instinct when the Europeans arrived to take their land and freedom. The brusk story Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell and the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad revolve around the time when colonialism had a foothold in many another(prenominal) parts of the world. This setting is one of pass eld of arms with the native peoples in these countries who are fighting and rebelling against the colonizers. Building upon this, both authors instill in the protagonists a mother wit of the wrongs they, as an extension of colonialism, are doing. In Shooting an Elephant and the Heart of Darkness there is an ongoing struggle between society and natives which leads the main point of reference to realize the destructive nature of colonisation. Each work is littered by destruction that comes in the forms of a control over the native population a need to keep order among the colony and a intellectual destruction incurred from having views opposed to the ruling presidencys. That each book denounces colonization is no surprise but each present a contravention to make clear the protagonists struggle. In Shooting an Elephant, this appointment is between George Orwell and the natives over an unruly elephant, and in The Heart of Darkness the conflict is between Marlow and happenings on the river Congo. Walking into such a wilderness mustiness have been harrowing for even the toughest of individuals, however, with a g... ...aging such as the ones see by Orwell and Marlow serve to remind of the dangers of absolute power in the men of any man. These works illustrate the need to a llow cultures to thrive and be different from the more powerful and influential bodies on the earth. Orwell and Marlow tell their stories in order to explain how they realized the truth about corruptive government as far back as the Nineteenth one C. This should serve as a reminder now as a new age dawns upon mankind, where everything can be bought and sold. The basic message is the same, however, that we use power destructively to avoid looking like fools. Works Cited Orwell, George, Shooting An Elephant. Ed. Messenger, W.E., A 20th Century Anthology. Scarborough Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1984 Conrad, Joseph, The Heart of Darkness. Toronto Bantam Books, November 1987