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Burmese Days - College Essays

Burmese Days

In the novel �� by George Orwell, imperialism shaped the daily lives of both British and Burmese characters through three main things racism, sexism and inequality. In the mid 1920's, deep into the days of the empire when The British ruled Burma, racial and sexist boundaries were part of everyday life. In some instances in the novel, Non-European characters tried to gain self respect and freedom by trying to bend the rules an cross over boundries if they possibly could. However, this deed was very hard to complete because of the racial bounderies. In one very rare case it was successful, U Po Kyin, the Subdivisional Magistrate of Kyauktada (where the novel was based on), wishes to ...

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superior as they might think, James Flory is desperate to get his black friend, Dr. Veraswami, into the social club. The docter thought of the club as "fortress impregnable" pg 150 and mr. flory will stop at nothing till he is. U Po Kyin, jealous of
Veraswami's freindship with the "white man" is set on ruining both Flory and Veraswami for he should be the one considered for the prestigus club. Hence, he will stop at nothing to cross the thick racial barrier that consist over the entire town. At the end of
the novel, riots, suicide, and mourning are the result from U Po Kyin. Yet U Po Kyin finally gets his membership to the club after he has done all the damage that he had planned to do. Imperialism forced people to become almost different people because
they had started riots, cheated, and lied jus to try and get passed the racial barrier. But this would have never happened if the barriers weren't so thick for the daily lives of the people of Kyauktada.
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Added: 9/8/2004 10:39:50 PM
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