These phrases all create the gloomy atmosphere of the jail. The narrator describes, вЂњA sodden morning of the rainsвЂќ, вЂњa sickly light, like yellow tinfoilвЂќ, вЂњcondemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cagesвЂќ, вЂњdesolately thin in the wet airвЂќ. However, the atmosphere of the story is dark and murky at all times. It is assumed that an imperial police will agree with the use of capital punishment, since he is not the one being punished.

Thus, A Hanging is a story of an imperial police watching as prisoners are executed around him. Also, the narrator himself writes, вЂњWe were waiting outside the condemned cellsвЂќ and вЂњThe superintendent of the jail, who was standing apart from the rest of usвЂќ, thereby giving readers information that the narrator is a imperial police. The story is written in the first person point of view, since вЂњIвЂќ am the main character of the essay. The dark atmosphere of a jail and the narratorвЂ™s point of view show that capital punishment is not only the prisonerвЂ™s burden, but everyoneвЂ™s burden. He creates a gloomy atmosphere, in the first person point of view, and builds up irony about the jailerвЂ™s attitude toward the prisonerвЂ™s death, to depict that everyone is involved into the hanging process, thereby revealing how capital punishment is unjustifiable. Orwell uses a variety of literary elements and devices to convey his disproval of capital punishment. The author, George Orwell was inspired by as an imperial police in Burma to write this novel.

A Hanging is a short story about the execution of a prisoner by hanging.

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