How Does Bierce Use Flashback In An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
Imagine being caught up in a alternate reality. Bierce’s style of writing puts the reader in the mind of the character, he also expresses a lot of emotion, by going back and showing his wife and kids. This shows us about how it led up to him being hung, and how his past was. Bierce was putting sympathy on the specific character because he wants people to know that Americans were hanging Americans. Two private soldiers of the federal army were standing waiting for peyton to be executed this showed that even the Federal Army were bad guys. In Bierce’s
“Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” he shows stream of consciousness by use of flashback and symbolism. Bierce encourages a lot of flashback to fill the gap between reality and illusion. He really …show more content…
makes the audience wonder how the ending will be. Farquhar sees himself falling into the water when the rope snaps and escaping but this makes you wonder if this is actually happening because the soldiers miss him everytime that they go to shoot him, this helps him drop clues throughout the story.
This also helps make the readers figure out what will happen at the end of the story. He shows this by the main characters observation of his surroundings around him and the little details in Nature. This helps by showing how in tune to his surroundings he is.
Farquhar could see The veining in each leaf and the smallest of bugs on the tree.
The moments leading up to farquhar being hung becomes really distorted in the reality of his life. Death is a reality each and every individual must eventually accept. Having to face death
in such a brutal manner leaves Peyton Farquhar reminiscent of his wife and home. He accepted that he was going to die no matter what and even at the end. He didn't think any ill thoughts about the men that were about to hang him.
The reader's ability to sympathize with the character through a distortion of time and to begin to question the nature and subjectivity make apparent how relative the truth is. Ambrose
Bierce reiterates the fact that time, reality, and truths are all created in the reader's mind. such as when the rope had broken and that given us the thought of Farquhar escaping. If the reader's perception creates each aspect and the reader's perception can be easily manipulated, then
it stands to reason that each aspect can then be manipulated as well.
Work Cited
Bierce, Ambrose. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek”. Pearson Education, 1850
Heller, Applegate, Haider 3
“Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” he shows stream of consciousness by use of flashback and symbolism. Bierce encourages a lot of flashback to fill the gap between reality and illusion. He really …show more content…
makes the audience wonder how the ending will be. Farquhar sees himself falling into the water when the rope snaps and escaping but this makes you wonder if this is actually happening because the soldiers miss him everytime that they go to shoot him, this helps him drop clues throughout the story.
This also helps make the readers figure out what will happen at the end of the story. He shows this by the main characters observation of his surroundings around him and the little details in Nature. This helps by showing how in tune to his surroundings he is.
Farquhar could see The veining in each leaf and the smallest of bugs on the tree.
The moments leading up to farquhar being hung becomes really distorted in the reality of his life. Death is a reality each and every individual must eventually accept. Having to face death
in such a brutal manner leaves Peyton Farquhar reminiscent of his wife and home. He accepted that he was going to die no matter what and even at the end. He didn't think any ill thoughts about the men that were about to hang him.
The reader's ability to sympathize with the character through a distortion of time and to begin to question the nature and subjectivity make apparent how relative the truth is. Ambrose
Bierce reiterates the fact that time, reality, and truths are all created in the reader's mind. such as when the rope had broken and that given us the thought of Farquhar escaping. If the reader's perception creates each aspect and the reader's perception can be easily manipulated, then
it stands to reason that each aspect can then be manipulated as well.
Work Cited
Bierce, Ambrose. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek”. Pearson Education, 1850
Heller, Applegate, Haider 3