How does Orwell demonstrate that tyranny enslaves both the oppressed and the tyrants as well?"On Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell

George Orwell's essay "On Shooting an Elephant" describes
Orwell's compromising position in a job that he hates bitterly because he has come to
the conclusion that imperialism is an evil in itself.  For, he feels stuck between
his

hatred of
the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to
make my job
impossible.

Orwell writes
that the incident of the elephant's ravaging a bazaar and inflicting violent acts,
especially the killing of an Indian man.  While Orwell does not want to shoot the
elephant, he knows that if the elephant charges him, he would be trampled and "reduced
to a grinning corpse like that Indian up the hill."  The Burmese crowd might also
laugh:  "That would never do."  So, Orwell shoots the elephant "to avoid looking like a
fool" before the Burmese people.  Thus, in his position of the imperialist, Orwell feels
the tyranny of the oppressed, remembering the crowd of Burmese who earlier had laughed
as a foul was allowed against him in a soccer match by a Burmese official. Now, again
they watch in hopes of ridiculing him and issuing mocking laughter that it is
intolerable to the notion of imperialism.