Peter Stoicheff's An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

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Peter Stoicheff seeks to to go into great depth about some of the science behind the dream sequence in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. Stoicheff relates the sequence to a revolutionary study of dreams done by a French writer named Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury. Stoicheff expands on Maury’s theory that dreams are caused by out external stimuli by relating subtle details in the story in relation to the real life trauma that the protagonist, Peyton Faquahar, quickly feels. Stoicheff finally analyzes the dream sequence in the context of a dream theory by Sigmond Freud and examines the factors that lead the reader to believe that the freedom was just a cruel joke.
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