Naturalism AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

Naturalism AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

The 19th Century American Art described Naturalism as : Life imitating nature and the artists of this period began focusing on real life situations . Naturalism literature began to flourish after the civil war and after the most loved Romanticism and Victorian literature Naturalism focuses on the lower to middle class man in which he is a futile figure of a domineering universe of a hostile nature . Some sort of struggling for the fittest and the strong and predestined are the only sure winner

The Ambrose

Bierce story at Owl Creek Bridge is told by a third party narrator . For a simple reason that a man who is dead cannot narrate his own death ? It says nothing more of a man named Peyton Fahrquhar , a planter from a respected Alabama family the author even distinguishes him as a gentleman which befits his physical appearance . Despite of the man 's , the person in the story seemed to die a futile death giving stress on the character of naturalism to which man is unimportant as quoted by the narrator below . he . original secessionist . devoted to the Southern cause Circumstances of an imperious nature , which it is unnecessary to relate here , had .army which had fought the disastrous campaigns (Bierce , 2004

Cynical , skeptical or mocking characteristics is vividly present along these lines

To be hanged and drowned " he thought "that is not so bad but I do not wish to be shot . No . not be shot that is not fair (Bierce 2004

The story dealt more on the agonizing death of a person but it was more descriptive than sentimental . It is an unwanted way of dying and yet there is no reason to stop it

The entire theme below is focused on someone who has experienced a few moments of life before death and another few moments after dying . His soul seemed to search and in a way could not even tell he is really dead . The story of the life of Peyton is a step by step narrative about the ironies of violent death , as if a man could account of his own dying which can be paraphrased

To die of hanging at the bottom of a river ! -- the idea seemed to him ludicrous . He opened his eyes in the darkness .above him a gleam of light , but how inaccessible ! He was still sinking , for the light became fainter .mere glimmer (Bierce , 2004

His neck ached horribly his brain was on fire , his heart , - fluttering faintly , gave a great leap , trying to force itself out at his mouth . His whole body was - wrenched with an insupportable anguish ! ADDIN EN .CITE Bierce11143Ambrose BierceAn Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge24 September 2007http /www .pageb ypagebooks .com /Ambrose_Bierce /An_Occurrence_At_Owl_Creek_Bridge /index .ht (Bierce ) 2004

The two lines below were skillfully drawn by the author and I must say that he has expertly given the most significant characteristic to the story by defining life and imitating nature . He...