In George Orwell Shooting an Elephant how does the narrator cultural background affecthow he feels about the elephant?

In Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) he displays the imperial administration's ambivalence concerning his action of destroying an elephant. On the one hand, it was his legal responsibility because the elephant had murdered a local "Coolie." On the other hand, killing the elephant is tantamount to destroying the means of production, which from a utilitarian point of view is a great crime. Orwell exposes the late-Victorian uncertainty over their true purpose as rulers - whether to uphold some truth-value embedded in the legal-rational state, or simply to maintain the utility of their dominion. This opposition between rational and utilitarian justification can be equated to the collapse of metaphysical truth to the realm of meaning-from the Idea of the True to the utility of communication within postmodern linguistic philosophy. For examples, consider Wittgenstein and Derrida.