What metaphors are used in Burmese Days by George Orwell?

Burma itself becomes a metaphor of The White Man's Burden Rudyard Kipling published a poem entitled "The White Man's Burden", which is referenced in the text. The poem summarized the concept that the English, or white man, were morally responsible, hence burdened, for the betterment of non-white societies by instilling English values and Christian morality. In a practical sense, the white man's burden was used as the justification for the colonization and exploitation of non-white society and culture, including India and Burma. Characters such as Ellis typify the worst aspects of this ideology—Ellis feels that the natives should completely acquiesce to British domination and exploitation because, he argues, it is in their own best interest to be trampled by the white man. Another ardent supporter of the white man's burden is, curiously, Veraswami. Veraswami considers himself literally inferior to Flory and the other English men, and finds his own race and culture second-rate to the glories of England. In Veraswami's world view, Ellis is essentially correct for holding the natives in contempt because, he argues, they are contemptible.