When most people sit down with their children to read bedtime stories, they are usually not looking for any hidden connotations. However, if readers looked closer, particularly at Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, they might discover that the story itself covers themes appropriate for both adults and children. One of them is imperialism; the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries. Similarly, the collection of children's stories The Jungle Book is an allegory based on imperialism in India. This collection of stories, in other words, Mowgli's journey to manhood, shows how Kipling was "influenced by British imperialism and its prejudices." (Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia) As a result, the plot provokes ideas of imperialism by showing the parasitic relationship between the desire of Europeans to conquer foreign lands and the hatred expressed by Shere Khan towards Mowgli. Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book illustrates the true imperialist ideas and values ​​of the British Empire in the early 20th century through the central allegorical characters. In 1894, Kipling published The Jungle Book, his most memorable work, consisting of short stories intended to energize European ideas and culture. For example, the fate of Shere Khan shows Britain's little tolerance for opposition to imperialism. He was always aware of the impermanence of domination, the inevitable decline and succession of empires. He knew that Western perspectives – he sometimes even seemed to recognize that male perspectives – were inevitably limited. There are many things in the world that a European man simply cannot understand, and many things he understands... middle of paper... and that requires something he is himself unable to provide. "Essentially," states Spinoza, "that everything people know is determined and arises from universal laws and exists and acts in a certain and determinate way. (Martinelli) Obviously, Spinoza would see Mowgli's return to the law of man as a self-aggravated necessity since Mowgli is a man, and not an animal; it is his right that he returns to the Law of Man Rudyard Kipling offers a complex mixture of narration by intertwining the tale of Mowgli and. The saga of the jungle animals in The Jungle Book are often misinterpreted as the story of Mowgli, however, Kipling intended them to be the voice of the jungle animals and how they perceive humanity. Therefore, Kipling uses animals to teach Mowgli the "laws of the jungle" and what emerges is the marked differences between man and animal..