George Orwell's short story "The Shooting and the Elephant" and "The Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams both share the same theme , or violence. Although these stories are very different, they share many similarities. They both commit an act of violence, and these acts have different effects on the stories' main characters. “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams is about a doctor who makes a house call and wants to diagnose this little girl because he thinks she has diphtheria. The doctor has to examine her throat but it is not an easy task because it becomes a conflict between the doctor and the child. It doesn't allow itself to be examined. The doctor gets irritated and uses force to open the girl's mouth. “Then I grabbed the little girl's head with my left hand and tried to put the wooden tongue depressor between her teeth. He fought, with clenched teeth, desperately! But now I was also furious with a child." (1210) “The Use of Force” has a theme about violence because the doctor uses violence to open the child's mouth. He got angry with the little girl because she didn't follow his orders, the doctor wanted to find out what the problem was and led him to use force to find out. "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell is about a police officer and talks about his most important event and that is when he had to shoot an elephant that was raging throughout the village. “He had already destroyed someone's bamboo hut, killed a cow, plundered some fruit stands and devoured the livestock.”(845) The people were already very upset and he was called to restore order. The theme “Shooting an elephant” is also violence because in the end it was the police officer who shot the elephant. “When I pulled the trigger I made… middle of paper… an acceptance by others. He did it so as not to make a bad impression in front of the villagers. In “The Use of Force” doctors are generally perceived as kind and trustworthy people. However in this story the doctor instead appears to be someone who intentionally caused pain to the child. The doctor didn't need it; there are many ways the doctor could have diagnosed the child correctly. Ultimately “Shooting an Elephant” and “Use of Force” both used violence to get what they wanted. Both characters in the stories had to go beyond their normality to achieve something, due to the personal connection to the obsession they desired. In “Use of Force” it was to correctly diagnose the little girl and see if she had diphtheria, and in “Shooting an Elephant” he wanted to be accepted by people, he wanted to avoid looking like a madman.