Right off the bat, or may I say gun, Orwell uses the unit fallacy in sentences such as "I was hated by large numbers of people" and "It was an immense crowd, two thousand at the least and growing every minute" to exaggerate for a more appealing story for the audience. Countless and estimated amount of people make it much more interesting than a set amount. Orwell manipulates his audience by making himself the victim in his murder. "To come all that way, rifle in hand, with two thousand people marching at my heels, and then to trail feebly away, having done nothing — no, that was impossible. The crowd would laugh at me." His use of the slippery slope fallacy helps him target the natives as bad guys if he would do the right thing leaving the audience to believe killing the elephant was his only choice from being humiliated.
Overall his most used fallacies were tautology and the straw man fallacy. Orwell always repeated the natives' despised towards him and the British throughout the first paragraphs. This helps him disguise as the victim as all the natives mishandle and have no respect towards him even though it's the opposite as British Imperialism had India and its people oppressed. Finally his experience with the elephant allows him to avoid the topic of his country oppressing India and turn it around by making it seem that the Indians were oppressing him.
Orwell's clever use of fallacies permits him to become the victim in his story. It seems not only guns and words end lives, but also reputations.
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