The essential point of the story is that ______.A．Orwell regretted the streak of cruelty t

The essential point of the story is that ______.

A．Orwell regretted the streak of cruelty that had led him to shoot an elephant

B．Orwell, as an official, had to defend the Burmese crowd b shooting the elephant

C．A foreign ruling class has to behave in the way that the conquered natives expect it to behave

D．Circumstances can lead men--as they led Orwell in this story--to carry out more extreme actions than were necessary

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