Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce is the author of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. The short story, often described as uncanny, takes the reader into an imaginary journey led by the main character, Farquhar as he is hanged. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” receives criticism on Bierce’s narrative technique. Critics such as Peter Stoicheff, Harriet Kramer Linkin, and James G. Powers, all discuss the purpose of the word choice made by Bierce throughout the story. Although Stoicheff, Powers, and Linkin…

state of being impractical or unrealistic, while Realism focuses in the realistic of life. Ambrose Bierce and W.D Howell campaign against romanticism in two of their important short stories: Bierce’s “Chickamauga” and Howell’s “Editha.” On the other hand, Mark Twain’s “The War-Prayer” rehearses and recasts a dynamic which we find operating in other texts that work to unmask the face of war. Moreover, Ambrose Bierce’s short story “Chickamauga,” a terrifying version of what we now call the…

glamorized and celebrated, everywhere from the Call of Duty games to the MMA and boxing leagues. However, war and fighting are only glamorized by the people who have not truly experienced them- a point well illustrated by author Ambrose Bierce. In his story "Chickamauga", Ambrose Bierce creates tension between the beliefs of the narrator and of the child, while including vital symbols, to display how the glamorization of war and fighting does not exist in people who have experienced…

In the Ambrose Bierce story “Chickamauga”, he uses the description of how the child saw the soldiers that were crawling through the grass, and how afraid of them he was at first. He wasn’t sure what they were until he noticed that they were closer to him. “They were men. They crept upon their hands and knees; they used their hands only, dragging their legs; they used their knees only, their arms hanging useless at their sides; they strove to rise their feet, but feel prone in the attempt”…

funny. Well, authors do the same thing in books. Instead of laughing at you they have symbolic meanings in their stories that only the most concentrated readers can spot. In the “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce a man is being hanged on a bridge. Authors like, Ambrose Bierce, use symbolism to further their stories. The bridge means a tough transition. This is a symbolic meanings used to create two points in a story. This is proved as when the author describes the bridge. He…

opinion about a certain topic. Ambrose Bierce is the perfect example of how satire is employed in literature because of his cynical demeanor and philosophical nature. Bierce?s work as a satirist demonstrates that he was one of the most philosophically charged writers of his time by using satire that provoked his readers to think of changing many blemishes faced by the society of his time. [1: Notes LiteraryDevices Editors. "Satire - Examples and Definition…

Naturalism, an adjunction of realism, culminated in the 1880’s which suggested conceptual perspectives to a man, his life and his actions. During this literary movement authors, such as Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce, illuminated of the depictions of everyday realities and the underlying forces in nature. Through these two authors and the stories “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” and “The Blue Hotel,” we analyze the properties and representations of naturalistic writing and natural literary…

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…

even romantic. But to those, like Ambrose Bierce, who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War, war is a deadly game that can leave its survivors physically and emotionally scarred. Bierce utilized his talents as a writer after the war to share the horrors that he witnessed and experienced with the public. Young men are killed, maimed and mangled. Families are torn apart and bystanders are annihilated – collateral damage. In “Chickamauga,” Ambrose Bierce uses an innocent deaf-mute child’s…

Saw of Shiloh” by Ambrose Bierce, he describes a great contrast between the nobility of officers and the brutality of battle. He paints a brutal picture of war in when he says “This fearful scene was enacted within fifty paces of our toes, but we were rooted to the ground as if we had grown there. But now our commanding officer rode from behind us to front, waved his hand with the courteous gesture that says après vous, and with a barely audible cheer we sprang into the fight (Bierce, p.15).” In…