A Critical Study of George Orwell’s Burmese Days with special Reference to Ecological Imperialism
Keywords:
Ecological Imperialism, Empire, Post-Colonial Literature, EnvironmentAbstract
Through the well-known novel Burmese Days, Orwell places the ecological disaster worldwide. The causes of the degradation of the ecology are clarified in this book. Real evidence of ecological imperialism may be found in the book Burmese Days as a logging enterprise administered by a small European colony in Upper Burma. The blatant hypocrisy and double standards employed by the British Empire in Upper Burma are brought to light in this book. The underlying goal of these British colonial strategies was to honestly assess imperialism's effects on the environment. Examining how ecological imperialism impacts the novel's characters is the goal of the current study.
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