English

Tyshawn

28 February, 02:13

Which excerpt from the essay most clearly portrays imperialism with negative connotations?

A) [w]ith another part I thought that the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a boyonet into a Buddhist priests guts

B) [A]fterwards I was very glad that the [indian] had been killed; it put me legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant

C) as for the job I was doing I hated it more bitterly than I can perhaps make clear. In a job like that you see the dirty work if empire at close quarters

D) I did not even know that the British empire is dying still less did I know that it is a great deal better than the younger empires that are going to supplant it.