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Burmese Days
Title: Burmese Days
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1376 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Burmese Days
George Orwell’s novel Burmese Days is set in 1920’s Burma under British colonialism. It focuses on the imperialism of the British and its effects on the relationships between the British, the British and Indians, and between the Indians themselves. The novel concentrates on the town of Kyauktada in Upper Burma.
Kyauktada is described as hot and sultry. It is a small town of about four thousand. The overwhelming majority of the inhabitants are Burmese, …showed first 75 words of 1376 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1376 total…Indians he only found them pleasing when they had no freedoms. None of these opinions held by the Englishmen are conducive to a reciprocal, understanding relationship between the British and the Burmese. Even if the English had overcome these barriers, the natives held stereotypes of the British as power-hungry, mean, degrading, and naïve. The feelings of the natives toward the British would also need to be overcome if an understanding were to be reached.
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