![]() Elizabeth's sole desire is to get married and live a life of ease she does not like hard work or any pursuits that require intellectual thought. The men and women in this novel generally adhere to the strict gender norms of their time. The reader is left with the understanding that imperialism is certainly not desirable for the natives, but that the natives themselves seem just as corrupt and/or incapable of doing anything themselves. As a part of the imperial system once, Orwell has a modicum of sympathy for the English trapped in it, and provides some excuses for them. His depiction of them veers close to caricature and cipher. On the other hand, Orwell does not seem able to move fully past an imperial worldview and conceive of the natives as fully-fledged human beings. On the one hand, he is keenly aware of its deleterious effects on both the colonizers and the colonized, and, through the words of Flory, is able to articulate the hypocritical and specious behavior and beliefs of the Europeans who stake their claim in the East. Orwell's feelings on imperialism are complicated. ![]()
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