Burmese Days
In the novel “Burmese Days” by George Orwell, imperialism shaped the daily lives of both British and Burmese characters through three main things racism, sexism and inequality. In the mid 1920's, deep into the days of the empire when The British ruled Burma, racial and sexist boundaries were part of everyday life. In some instances in the novel, Non-European characters tried to gain self respect and freedom by trying to bend the rules an cross over boundries if they possibly could. However, this deed was very hard to complete because of the racial bounderies. In one very rare case it was successful, U Po Kyin, the Subdivisional Magistrate of Kyauktada (where the novel was based on), wishes to be in the European social club which wasn't much but it meant so much to the burmese people an the rest of Kyauktada because it was where the most respected people came to socialize. In any town in India, the European club is the placewhere everyone wishes to be a part of. However the exclusive club has never admitted a man of a different race into it's social club because they feel that that the other races non other than theirs is not as civilized . One man who realized that white men are not as
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Po Kyin, Serves Pg, Ma Hla, British Burmese, Flory Veraswami, India European, Magistrate Kyauktada, Dr Veraswami, po kyin, George Orwell, social club, James Flory, dr verswami, daily lives, daily lives british, racial barrier, people kyauktada, poor lives, racial boundary, non-european characters, respect freedom, self respect freedom,
Approximate Word count = 1215
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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