Essay: An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

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The ideas, fantasies, and visions, that I can visualize in both stories called “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce and the other one called “The Yellow Wall-paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, show an amazing picture of realism. In both stories the authors main central element was to show the realistic scenes that make the reader believe that they are in it, based on the dreams and fantasies that the authors included in their work. “As these thoughts, which have here to be set down in words, were flashed into the doomed man's brain rather than evolved from it the captain nodded to the sergeant. The sergeant stepped aside” (Bierce 319). Right before Farquhar’s death, his thoughts were fast and confusing while his killers were showing care and foresight. We cannot trust what’s real and what’s not in the story because Farquhar was dying and at the same time he was imaging his own realistic illusions that made it feel real. But the images that Farquhar was imaging were just fantasies, so the narrator takes us readers into a reality scene, but at the same time it was not real. The author takes us to another …show more content…

Death is extremely linked to variations of certainty in this story, because the experience of the separation between life and death is private for Farquhar due to the way he starts to think about different ways of surviving. However, Farquhar creates his own fantasy images out of how fearful he was. It is tremendous how in the middle of a death struggle he thinks about his family and how he wants to see them imaging his own realistic scene, of how he just wanted to live in an idealistic illusion where he suffered from, which in fact realism

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