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Dehumanization In Civil War Stories

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Dehumanization happens when a person dispossess their human qualities. Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce is a collection of short stories concerning the American Civil War. The Island of Dr.Moreau by H.G. Wells is about Edward Prendick’s life changing encounter with Dr.Moreau and his island of beast people. Both Civil War Stories and The Island of Dr. Moreau have examples of dehumanization. Every person has the ability to dehumanize himself or herself. Four Days in Dixie from Civil War Stories clearly shows this. The story is about an unnamed Union lieutenant who tells about his experience of being in in Confederate captivity for four days, then his escape back to the North. At the end, he described something falling into the fire, saying
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