Works of Ambrose Bierce

In many of his works, Ambrose Bierce uses the affects of warfare and how it takes its toll on society. Ambrose Bierce wrote during the Civil War Period. Most of his stories and characters were set during this period.

In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Peyton Farquhar loses everything to help the Confederate Army. Many of Bierce’s stories “draw upon his experiences in the Civil War, earning him a reputation as a realistic author of war fiction.” (Hall, Sharon 87) Farquhar a “civilian and a student of hanging” is caught trying to sabotage a Union railroad by setting fire to it and is caught and is sentenced to be hung at Owl Creek Bridge. Farquhar dreams that he escapes hanging, drowning, and being shot at. ”What a splendid effort!- what magnificent, what superhuman strength! Ah, that was a fine endeavor! Bravo!” (471) Farquhar then witnessed something speeding by his head and an explosion up ahead of him. The men that are trying to kill him were now shooting a cannon at him. “The cannon had taken a hand in the game…he heard the deflected shot humming through the air ahead, and in an instant it was cracking and smashing the branches in the forest beyond.” (472) Farquhar escapes and finds his way back

 
 

and seven hundred and fifty thousand cats went to bed hungry!” (766) The cats then got together in fear of dying from starvation. They then started through the streets making all kinds of noise. “Theses sacred animals seeing themselves doomed to starvation, held a mass-meeting and marched in procession through the streets, swearing and spitting like fiends.” (766) The dead dogs, so numerous and rotting and decaying, came alive again and trotted through Sardasa. “The dead dogs in consequence reeked rascally. Then they struck!…they trooped innumerous, a ghastly crew.” (766) The cats and dogs then met midway through town. Bierce has a “dark vision of life” which “centers on warfare and the cruel joke it plays on humanity.” (Probst, Robert 466) Then in return the cats and dogs prepared to fight. “Midway through town it met in procession of cats in full song. The cats instantly exalted their backs and magnified their tails; the dead dogs uncovered their teeth as in life, and erected such of their bristles as still adhered to the skin.” (466) The cats and dogs engaged in such a battle that they started destroying the town. “The carnage ensued was too awful for relation.” (767) After the dogs and cats started tearing apart the city the townspeople go



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