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The second was the product of his intellectual nourishment at Eton and was iconoclastic, dismissive, Shavian. As we have seen, those who met him in Burma, such as Christopher Hollis, described him as torn between these two visions of the imperial project. He had misgivings about the ends of imperialism (or at least some of them) and anyway his personal experiences rendered him increasingly incapable of willing the means. Some aspects of imperialism might be justified politically, and British imperialism might legitimately claim to be less unacceptable than most other forms – Orwell accepted both of these possibilities – but it necessarily involved so much inhumanity, so much ‘dirty work’, as to be ultimately morally unjustifiable.
It was one illustration, but not the chief one: that was to be his exploration of the nature of class relations in Britain, and it was the one to which, following his return from Burma, Orwell devoted his life and sacrificed his health. We shall be looking at the fruits of his experiences in Chapter 3. 3 To summarise the argument so far: I have suggested that Orwell’s political perspective was shaped by his formative Burmese experiences, which provided him with a framework of analysis of the relationship between the rulers and the ruled, a framework that he adapted to analyse contemporary capitalist society in his homeland.
We are not told of what crime the man was guilty; neither is any inference drawn by the writer from the events that are described. What Orwell does, however, is to oblige the reader to confront the harsh realities of empire. The policeman in the story was none other than Trilling’s ‘Orwell of the undeceived intelligence’, the ordinary moral man. 28 It is curious, but till that moment I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle I saw the mystery, the unsupportable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide .