In this sentence Orwell appeals to the readers' senses to empathize with the Indian man allowing the readers to relate on a human-to-human level with the Indian man. At other parts of the paragraph listing is also used to portray Orwell's displeasure with capital punishment, "seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world". Each system listed provides a rhythmic build up of how disgusted the narrator is and it also builds up to a climax of which the narrator scorns out at the 'foolery' of the body, almost in anger and in a warning.
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In the tenth paragraph the narrator describes the workings of the human body still taking place in the Indian man, "All the organs of his body were working – bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming –all toiling away in solemn foolery." The listing of the different body parts emphasizes how many natural systems the hanging is going to disrupt.
George Orwell employs the use of description, listing and repetition to drive home his view on capital punishment. Upon realization about the horror of capital punishment, the narrator's disgust conveys George Orwell's desired inference – the 'unspeakably wrongness' of hanging a man. His disapproval is especially obvious in the narrator's epiphany of "destroy(ing) a healthy, conscious person." In the story, A Hanging, George Orwell's apparent condemnation on capital punishment is revealed through the narrator's point of view.