The prisoner walks to the gallows steadily and starts to call out the god in a rhythmical tone. But in the essay, it happens in the other way. It is expected that a person who is confronting death must be frightened. But the drama that has taken place during these eight minutes throws light on the varied human tendencies. It begins at eight ‘o clock and ends at eight minutes past eight. In the present essay, the writer has captured a very limited time span, to be precise, it is hardly of eight minutes. But this compactness does not arise from the superficiality or lack of knowledge of its author. When the dog was caught by someone, the procession resumed.īrevity or shortness is an important feature of an essay. The prisoner paid no attention even to this strange incident. The angry superintendent ordered to catch the dog. Everybody stood aghast because of the strange event. One large woolly dog jumped on the prisoner. As the procession proceeded further, a dreadful thing took place. The doctor was in a hurry to take the prisoner to the gallows because till the job was not over, the prisoners couldn’t get their breakfast. The warders were accompanied by an army doctor, a jailer, a superintendent. He just neglected the warders who were taking him to the gallows. Though confronted with death, the prisoner was not bothered by the fear of death. The prisoner was a Hindu, with shaven head, vague liquid eyes and a thick sprouting moustache. The writer describes the event of hanging one prisoner in Burma.
The essay comments on the unavoidability of and the submission to death. Like ‘Shooting an Elephant’, the incident of hanging takes place in Burma where he worked for some time. The essay is remarkable for the vivid characters that Orwell has portrayed. Orwell describes the event in his usual dramatic and ironic style. The essay ‘ A Hanging’ by George Orwell describes an incident of hanging one prisoner.
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