![]() Ambrose Bierce develops this theme in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, illustrating that war can be a perfect representation of violence not only at the physical level, but also at the psychological one. Obviously, the inner anger and grief that make him act in a negative manner have external or internal causes and, consequently, make him be aggressive and tempted to injure or even kill. Violence represents that inner force which makes the individual react in a negative way and injure physically or mentally the ones around him. ![]() ![]() Thanks to the existence of remarkable writers such as Ambrose Bierce, we can better understand the changes that have occurred in literature and realize at the same time that short-stories such as “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” offered new ways of interpreting reality, showing that new issues such as violence, the impact of civil wars on the psyche of the individual as well as the value of life in a cruel universe, have offered a new perspective over the world. The literary panorama of the late 19th century and of the 20th century reflects the complexity of the contemporary thoughts, the whirlpool of ideas, offering an overall image of the changes that have occurred in the mind of the individual due to several events: the world or civil wars, the social structures threatened by the expansion of the industrialization, as well as the oscillating economy in America. Teacher of English and French Liceul Teoretic “Traian” Deva ![]()
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