"I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man." After reading and understanding George Orwell's feelings through his experiences in his essay "A Hanging." We come to realize that George Orwell, a visitor from the European establishment, gets the opportunity to participate in the execution of a Hindu man. We realise that the author is degraded by what he has witnessed and experienced, and decides to share his feelings with the rest of the establishment through his writings.
We understand that the author's purpose is to show how degraded he feels by the events that took place that morning in Burma.
Throughout his essay the author shows, that the prisoners are treated like animals. We see this when the author is describing the cells, he states, "We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages." We also see this evident when he is describing the way it took six guards to escort a "puny......
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