Owl Creek Bridge Romanticism

In the short story “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce, there are many elements of both realism and romanticism that can be found and analyzed. Just as in the short stories and poems “The storm” by Kate Chopin, “I heard a fly buzz when I died” by Emily Dickinson as well as “Because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson as well, the elements of both realism and romanticism are somewhat hidden at times but are very open to the eye and various cases. There is the romanticism that “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “I heard a fly buzz when I died” share in both death as well as life, as well as the realism as seen in Kate Chopin's “The storm” that can be analyze with “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. There are also romantic

In Kate Chopin's the storm, the setting already gives it a very familiar and rustic mood as you are transported to a time in which electricity and cars were even a thought, . The elements of realism can not only be shown by the mood in the setting but as well as the character flaws and the eventuality of each action that that the characters are portrayed in such as the way that the husband and son have to wait out storm in the shop even though they have a wife that is miles away at home supposedly alone mama will be frayed yes he suggested with blinking eyes chefs at the house maybe she got Sylvia helping her shopin 434. As well as the wife's faltering judgment in the marriage as she invites I'll see inside the house in order to wait out the storm now well now her lip seemed in a manner free to be tasted chokin 436. They're also elements of realism in Ambrose Bierce Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, that have a lot to do with not only the setting but also the interpretation and way that the characters act not only from the small details but as well as the occurrences and stylistic diction. It was set to be during the Civil War times and the narrator was particularly on the southern side, in which was the

There were the Romantic elements shared by An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge with Emily Dickinson's I heard a fly buzz when I died as well as because I could not stop for death in which death was the main element that was being romanticized and the occurrences around it where the main actions that drove the character to not only mirages but as well as depicting death itself in human form. Whereas in Kate Chopin's the storm the elements of realism could be symbolically compared to that of bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, due to not only the setting a nature but as well as the time. And the situations and occurrences that the characters were put in as well as their decisions that were being made. This conclusion stands in order to not only analyze a but also depict the romantic and realist elements in these stories in order to understand the times better as well as to understand the narrator's and authors themselves. It is to understand the history behind the story in which is the reasoning why we analyze them in the first place. That being said in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge the prevailing mood would have to be romanticism, and this is almost entirely due to the time.