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EN4267 Final Essay - Resisting Human Subjectivity: The Glorification of Non-Human Incomprehensibility in George Orwell’s ‘Shooting an Elephant’ and Mahashweta Devi’s ‘Salt’
EN4267 - Literature and Ecology
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In this essay, I wish to explore how George Orwell’s ‘Shooting an Elephant’ and Mahashweta Devi’s Salt’ embrace the incomprehensibility of non-human beings through the written medium, forcing readers to take a step back from an anthropocentric ideology and through this, enable the restoration of their dignity in a powerful move that dismisses human subjectivity. Both texts similarly exhibit a resistance towards human comprehension in their depiction and understanding of the non-human beings (namely, the elephants) and capitalize on the glorification of this incomprehensibility to subvert human-animal boundaries and power dynamics. Ultimately, Orwell and Devi point to a pervasive and intrinsically complex social structure concerning hierarchal power and the struggle for it, blurring the boundaries between right and wrong in humanity’s treatment of nature as they are driven to commit violence for the sake of self-preservation—thus revealing an urgent need for a fundamental change in environmental ideology that takes into account these nuances for an effective and sustainable change in the relationship between humankind and nature.
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