The Contrasting Themes and Structure of William Faulkners The Bear Ess

The Contrasting Themes and Structure of William Faulkners The Bear At first, William Faulkners The Bear, seems to be a story about the decline of an old stick out and the natural state he represented. Oddly, it is possible to omit the fourth chapter of The Bear and still keep a complete and less confusing story. Although sandwiched in between the leash and fifth chapters, the fourth chapter is almost wholly independent. For the purpose of this analysis, I allow for refer to chapters one(a), dickens, three, and five as being one fractional of the story, period chapter four solely comprises the other half. At first, it seems that these two sections have lower-ranking in common, but that exactly is Faulkners intention. He has deliberately pitted these two halves of the story against namely other in order to compare and business line wilderness to civilization. He does this by creating two separate and independent plots, containing each almost solely in the environment dic tated by their theme, severalize two martyr-like characters-each central to the plot, and giving the two sections different narrative styles and chronology. To exposit things, the fourth chapter is placed in the midst of the rest of the story. Faulkner uses contrasting plots to separate the two sections of The Bear at the lowest possible level. The first half of the story (chapters 1,2,3, and 5) contains a fully contained plot about a bear hunt and the decline of the wilderness, while the other half (chapter 4) is also ego sufficient in its plot, depending only on the other half for introducing the chief(prenominal) characters. The first half of the story tells a bittersweet tale of a boy who wished to learn humility and pride in order to depart skillful and worthy in the woods but... ...the wilderness, but abandoned it on with the wilderness. Faulkner illustrates these differences with representative parts in the story and communicates his feelings towards each in what he c hooses to write and how he writes it. Yet by melding the two parts into one and tying them inseparably together, he effectively communicates the duality of grief felt by the boy, one of that last who understood humility and pride. Works CitedBrooks, Cleanth. William Faulkner Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond. impudent Haven Yale University Press, 1978.Evans, David H. Taking the Place of Nature The Bear and the Incarnation of America. Faulkner and the Natural adult male Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1996. Ed. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson UP of Mississippi, 1999.Faulkner, William. The Bear. Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner. Vintage 1997.