Shooting an Elephant

Enemy is a person actively hostile to another. In George Orwell's story " Shooting an Elephant" we come across the hatred and hostility nurtured by the British and the Burmese against each other.
Burmese considered British as their enemies as they had occuped their territory and imposed the most tyrannical rule on them. They exploited their rights and degraded them. On the other hand British considered burmese as their adversary because the Burmese felt that the Britsh were an unjust opressor on them for which they hated the British like anything and were in a constant struggle to force them out.
As far as the elephant is concerned, the Burmese considered it as their enemy and wanted to kill it because he had turned violent. Similarly, George Orwell himself posed a threat to the elephant, who was equipped with a weapon and was ready to shoot it.