In 1947 a lung infection contracted in Burma worsened, and in 1950 Orwell succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of 46.

Mr Flory is against the British, while Doctor Veraswami defends the British rule. Both books were widely considered to be indictments of Communism under Joseph Stalin, but Orwell insisted that they were critiques of totalitarian ideas in general, and warned that the nightmarish conditions he depicted could take place anywhere. In this passage from Burmese Days by George Orwell, an English timber merchant named Mr Flory visits his friend, Doctor Veraswami, to continue their usual discussion about the British Empire and its influence in Burma. He is best known for his satires of totalitarian rule: Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Through his autobiographical work about poverty in London ( Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933), his experiences in colonial Burma ( Burmese Days, 1934 and 'Shooting an Elephant', 1936) and in the Spanish Civil War ( Homage to Catalonia, 1938), and the plight of unemployed coal miners in England ( The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937), Blair (who wrote under the name George Orwell) exposed and critiqued the human tendency to oppress others politically, economically, and physically.

From 1922-27 he served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. Veraswami considers himself literally inferior to Flory and the other English men, and finds his own race and culture second-rate.Eric Blair was born and spent his youth in India. Another ardent supporter of the white man's burden is, curiously, Veraswami. Characters such as Ellis typify the worst aspects of this ideology-Ellis feels that the natives should completely acquiesce to British domination and exploitation because, he argues, it is in their own best interest to be trampled by the white man. Ellis is so angry he attacks a native boy with a stick and blinds him. All the Europeans go to Maxwell's funeral except Verrall. In a practical sense, the white man's burden was used as the justification for the colonization and exploitation of non-white society and culture, including India and Burma. While the British community is upset about Maxwell's death, U Po Kyin is pleased by the development. In this book, the author tells the reality of Burma, the reality of man. The poem summarized the concept that the English, or white man, were morally responsible, hence burdened, for the betterment of non-white societies by instilling English values and Christian morality. Burmese Days is a novel that was written by the famous English author George Orwell. Rudyard Kipling published a poem entitled 'The White Man's Burden', which is referenced in the text.

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