An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge Irony Essay

Throughout the realist time period, many of the authors/poets used irony as a tool for their works. Irony was an important technique for realist to use, as it made their stories more interesting to read and made it capable for them to compete against the romanticism authors. Some of the realist authors include Ambrose Bierce, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Kate Chopin. All of these authors wanted to use irony in order to enhance their stories, and that’s just what they did. Being that Ambrose Bierce wanted to better his work with irony, that’s exactly what he did with his two stories “Chickamauaga” and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. With “Chickamauaga” he used irony with the boys’ fear of animals. The whole reason the child got lost was because he got scared by a rabbit and ran away from it. Later on when the child awoke from his nap he thought the soldier coming towards him was a bear, and that made his excited as he had always wanted to meet a bear. Which is extremely ironic being that he is afraid of rabbits, but wants to meet a bear. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Bierce used irony almost throughout the entire story. The most ironic part of the story happens when Mr. Farquhar …show more content…
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