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 Burmese Days - George Orwell
Newest Review: ... novel. The story shows the worst side of Imperialism and how it exploits, and also the worst side of the native stock who ... more  ... use and abuse eachother and their "masters" in order to live the Imperialist Dream. Imperial India is shown as a hard place, with even harder people. Do not read this novel for a happy ending as you will only be dissappointed! In Burma the tough get tougher and the soft only suffer. Flory is the exception to the Imperialist rule, befriending Dr. Veraswami and shunning his colonial bretheren, and for this he suffers. He also has the misfortune to have a large, red birth-mark on his face, hence his choosing a j...more |
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Burmese Days - George Orwell: A Passage About India. (768 words)
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Burmese Days is Orwell's first fictional novel to be published, and is, characteristically, a work of genius. Orwell takes memories and thoughts of his time as India, as a child and later in the Indian Imperial Police Force, and turns hem into a masterpiece. Orwell's works are often hidden by the light of his more famous non-fictional works, and, of course, 1984 and Animal Farm. It is because of this that his other works would have been far more widely known had they been written by someone else, but then who could challenge Orwell's gift with a pen? Burmese Days can be read a lot like A Passage to India, another great work, even with the main Indian ... Read the complete review
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