Free Will In 'Shooting An Elephant'
Some people think that free will doesn’t exist and that everyone’s fate is predetermined long before they were born. Free will is making all life decisions simply by choice, having control over everything done in life. Fate is no matter what happens it was meant to happen, and nothing that is done can change what is destined to happen. Just imagining that everything done in one’s life is not decided by that person is completely absurd. Life is all choices to think that it isn’t all by free will makes no sense. People are the masters of their own fate and to say otherwise is completely insane. People have free will and what they do with that decides their destiny.
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The main character Orwell was a sub-divisional police officer. One day there was a rampaging circus elephant going through the town, and Orwell went with his old .44 Winchester so he could go scare it away. During the elephants rampage throughout the town it destroyed a hut, killed a cow and raided some fruit stalls. Later on they realized the elephant trampled a man to death and that’s when Orwell went and got an elephant rifle from a friend because he thought it was needed at the moment. Orwell tracked down the elephant and the whole town followed because they wanted to see the elephant get killed so they could then take its meat. Orwell had thought to himself “I had no intention of shooting the elephant-I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary” (Orwell 724). But because all these people followed him when he finally found the elephant he had got ready to shoot it. The elephant was no longer going crazy and was calmly eating a bush but Orwell chose from his own decision that I’m going to shoot this animal. He was defiantly pressured to do so but he still made the decision to end the animal’s life because he is the one who pulled the trigger. He knew that there was no need for killing it but he chose to shoot and he said “I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool” (Orwell …show more content…
They believe that everything in life is predetermined and that they have no choice in what their life leads too. But the belief of free will is so much better than that because life is what you make it. People do stupid things, and it can affect other people’s lives, but they do it anyway. Like in Disconnected what happened to Ben only happened because of what he did. The kids that made the account can be held responsible for the depression but Ben still chose to try to end his life by his choice. In “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell shot that elephant. He said he didn’t want to look like a fool but he still went along with it and shot the gun. And in Trifles the women chose to hide the evidence, and Mrs. Wright chose to kill her husband. Everyone makes their own decisions and that is what leads to the outcome of life. Nobody is born on this earth with their whole life planned out and don’t get to change their life. Everyone has the freedom of making their life choices based off their free
In the movie Disconnected it showed three different stories, and they all demonstrated …show more content…
The main character Orwell was a sub-divisional police officer. One day there was a rampaging circus elephant going through the town, and Orwell went with his old .44 Winchester so he could go scare it away. During the elephants rampage throughout the town it destroyed a hut, killed a cow and raided some fruit stalls. Later on they realized the elephant trampled a man to death and that’s when Orwell went and got an elephant rifle from a friend because he thought it was needed at the moment. Orwell tracked down the elephant and the whole town followed because they wanted to see the elephant get killed so they could then take its meat. Orwell had thought to himself “I had no intention of shooting the elephant-I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary” (Orwell 724). But because all these people followed him when he finally found the elephant he had got ready to shoot it. The elephant was no longer going crazy and was calmly eating a bush but Orwell chose from his own decision that I’m going to shoot this animal. He was defiantly pressured to do so but he still made the decision to end the animal’s life because he is the one who pulled the trigger. He knew that there was no need for killing it but he chose to shoot and he said “I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool” (Orwell …show more content…
They believe that everything in life is predetermined and that they have no choice in what their life leads too. But the belief of free will is so much better than that because life is what you make it. People do stupid things, and it can affect other people’s lives, but they do it anyway. Like in Disconnected what happened to Ben only happened because of what he did. The kids that made the account can be held responsible for the depression but Ben still chose to try to end his life by his choice. In “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell shot that elephant. He said he didn’t want to look like a fool but he still went along with it and shot the gun. And in Trifles the women chose to hide the evidence, and Mrs. Wright chose to kill her husband. Everyone makes their own decisions and that is what leads to the outcome of life. Nobody is born on this earth with their whole life planned out and don’t get to change their life. Everyone has the freedom of making their life choices based off their free