Realism and naturalism are two different literary movements, but they have many similarities. Realism expresses real life situations and focuses on a true illustration of life while naturalism is represented like an overstated type of realism. Naturalism is based on humans versus a force that is out of their control. Short stories in American literature portray realism and naturalism in many ways. Editha, The Open Boat, and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge are all based on these literary movements. In “Editha” by William Dean Howells there are many examples of realism. William Dean Howells was a primary advocate of realism. The whole concept of war is realism itself because as much as world peace is wished for among many, the fact of the
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In “The Open Boat” Crane depends on on impressionism to interconnect the gulf among objective reality and what his characters in the novel recognize as reality. While the reason of realism and naturalism demands on experience and insight to be practically the same, impressionism varies from them because it permits for the fact that a character’s understanding of reality is nearly impossible. Crane’s imprecise method in “The Open Boat” is best for engaging his readers hooked on the same setting and situation as his characters. The novel’s initial sentence, “No one knew the color of the sky,” drives the person who reads into the situation the characters, who obtain a incomplete outlook of the world. Every character survives without help in his individual reality, as well as storyteller, whose shortage of knowledge emphasizes a dominant message in the story. That message is that nobody actually really knows anything. Crane develops his imprecise method by contrasting zoomed, fleshly images of the men’s involvement in the ship with the storyteller’s disconnected viewpoint. The narrator declares that the rocky gloomy waters hinder the fellows’ sight of all things separate from the boat, but then the narrator notes that the situation would have stood striking if observed from a distance. The idea of fluctuating the setting of position is to carry that …show more content…
Peyton Farquhar is face to face with death, but in his mind he escapes. “He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts on his wife and children” (Bierce 400). No one can escape death or cheat their way out of it. Whether there was a war or not, Peyton would eventually die. The war only affected the timing of his death. This story also demonstrates man vs death. Once it was Peyton’s time to die he should have accepted his destiny. Death is inevitable in the story and right before Peyton was about to hug his wife, he untimely died at Owl Creek Bridge. The victory of Bierce’s bombshell finale in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” relies on the reliability he creates at the opening of the novel of the world. “Ambrose Bierce designed this piece of literature to keep the reader’s attention, by going into the mind of Peyton” (Kemp 1). He wisely arranges every single detail. Including the time being of the civil war and the setting, which is northern. Bierce specifically defines the difficult things that are required to hang Farquhar. Bierce’s explanations of the way the soldiers are positioned, to the exact way they hold their weapons, the details of military procedural and behavior, including precise language and expression also create an identifiable world. Bierce gave his writing legitimacy and power by using his own personal experience, him fighting during the Civil War for the North.
In “The Open Boat” Crane depends on on impressionism to interconnect the gulf among objective reality and what his characters in the novel recognize as reality. While the reason of realism and naturalism demands on experience and insight to be practically the same, impressionism varies from them because it permits for the fact that a character’s understanding of reality is nearly impossible. Crane’s imprecise method in “The Open Boat” is best for engaging his readers hooked on the same setting and situation as his characters. The novel’s initial sentence, “No one knew the color of the sky,” drives the person who reads into the situation the characters, who obtain a incomplete outlook of the world. Every character survives without help in his individual reality, as well as storyteller, whose shortage of knowledge emphasizes a dominant message in the story. That message is that nobody actually really knows anything. Crane develops his imprecise method by contrasting zoomed, fleshly images of the men’s involvement in the ship with the storyteller’s disconnected viewpoint. The narrator declares that the rocky gloomy waters hinder the fellows’ sight of all things separate from the boat, but then the narrator notes that the situation would have stood striking if observed from a distance. The idea of fluctuating the setting of position is to carry that …show more content…
Peyton Farquhar is face to face with death, but in his mind he escapes. “He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts on his wife and children” (Bierce 400). No one can escape death or cheat their way out of it. Whether there was a war or not, Peyton would eventually die. The war only affected the timing of his death. This story also demonstrates man vs death. Once it was Peyton’s time to die he should have accepted his destiny. Death is inevitable in the story and right before Peyton was about to hug his wife, he untimely died at Owl Creek Bridge. The victory of Bierce’s bombshell finale in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” relies on the reliability he creates at the opening of the novel of the world. “Ambrose Bierce designed this piece of literature to keep the reader’s attention, by going into the mind of Peyton” (Kemp 1). He wisely arranges every single detail. Including the time being of the civil war and the setting, which is northern. Bierce specifically defines the difficult things that are required to hang Farquhar. Bierce’s explanations of the way the soldiers are positioned, to the exact way they hold their weapons, the details of military procedural and behavior, including precise language and expression also create an identifiable world. Bierce gave his writing legitimacy and power by using his own personal experience, him fighting during the Civil War for the North.