Essays on Stephen Crane

Stories written based on writer`s experience have always been of great demand. To satisfy the readers with an interesting plot and breathtaking scenes, some people use the literary technique, even if primordial aim of the story was to inform readers about some events. The eagerness to make their life-stories popular clouds their minds and they begin think over fiction events or adventures to diversify the plot. This paper is to analyze the ways used by Stephen Crane in his “The Open Boat” to blend journalistic and literary techniques in the story and in his daily newspaper account. The ...

The poem “The Race” by Sharon Olds and “In the Desert” by Stephen Crane are the poems chosen for the poetic analysis. The first one is a blank verse that in details describes the thoughts of the main hero, the second stands out as a perfectly concise dialogue, which encourages own independent self-analysis. They are unified with the similar topic, which depicts the importance of human soul and neglects everything material. Nevertheless, there are also a lot of differences in poetic form, linguistic and stylistic devices chosen. For sure, some of them are predetermined by the time when the ...

Stephen Crane spent about thirty hours in an open boat on 1 January 1897 and years later he published the story that became a reflection of his experience. “The Open Boat” wasn’t just a description of those thirty hours; it was a short story that related to Crane’s main beliefs and concerns about the society (Spofford 316). There are some main points of interest in the story – its motifs of nature’s indifference and brotherhood that unite in the face of it. At the center of the story Crane puts indifference of the universe and the nature of human ...

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“A man said to the universe: ‘Sir, I exist!’ ‘However,’ replied the universe, ‘The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.’”—Stephen Crane The above quote made by Stephen Crane highlights the personal philosophy which Crane had concerning nature or “the universe,” which may appear at have a certain detachment concerning its relationship with humans. This point is further emphasized by Harold Bloom's introduction in the critical work entitled, Stephen Crane in the following: “[Stephen Crane's] mode wasrenderedwith a meticulous nihilism, a deep sense of the meaninglessness of life except for what could be converted ...

The entirety of human experience is, for proponents and advocates of the literary movement of naturalism, a result not of the individual’s choice, but of the natural circumstances of his social and biological environment. Whereas the realists advocate for the individual as the center of the conflict within the page, the naturalists construe literary conflict as emerging between man and nature. Two works that are often considered characteristic of this movement are Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”, and Jack London’s “The Law of Life”. In both works, the protagonists are pitted against their natural environments, and the ...

The purpose of Naturalism as a literary movement is to bring about the accurate reproduction of a story’s characters inside the spheres of genetics, environment, fate, instinct as well as the current social context of the time period in which the author wrote the work. Within the American literary tradition, Naturalism has close connections with Realism, and it takes much of its influence from Determinism, the belief that the actions a person undertakes are motivated by both environment and heredity. In “The Open Boat” and “To Build a Fire,” Stephen Crane and Jack London attempt to use the actions and thoughts of ...

Language is a fundamental tool for communication of ideas. Thus, both the short stories “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton and “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane portray a writing technique that goes hand in hand with realism movement. This is a period that existed around 1910 to 1920, during post civil war. It was supposed to be an intense form of pragmatism, one that moved away from the middle class center of the realists and pertained more to the remains of society. The view of naturalism that classifies it as so different unit from naturalism is its ability and difference in looking ...

How is the reader presented with an unresolved issue Analysis?

“A Mystery of Heroism” by the author Stephen Crane is a story based on the soldiers at war. The story highlights Fred Collins, a soldier, during one of the civil wars in Europe who goes to look out for water so as to save his fellow soldiers in the middle of the war taking place; his colleague soldiers think his act as being stupid and foolish but Collins thinks it will be a heroic act to get to the well amid the battle and fetch water (Crane, 2010). He feels that since he does intimidated by any fear, passing through the battlefield ...

Analyzing Stephen Crane’s prose style.

The above paragraph provides a deep insight into the naturalist writing style of the author, Stephen Crane (Colvert, 35). The first sentence mentions ‘None of them knew the color of the sky’. This displays an uncertain perspective in the forefront but if delved deeply displays ontology of corrected aesthetic reply. This is a figurative speech and the author on one hand admits that people do not know the ‘color of the sky’ and on the other hand mentions that people know the ‘colors of the sea’. The prose here emphasizes on the ‘colors of the sea’. It speaks about agency, integrity, ...

"There Was Crimson Clash of War" by Stephen Crane The poem talks about the consequences of the mental and physical violence that is associated with war. This is because Crane’s background was involved in fascination of war; hence he spread the inspiring messages through this poem. In this poem the speaker is an outsider who is trying to review a situation that he cannot understand. “There came one who understood not these things”, (line 5), portrays a situation where a stranger who can not understand the situation developed by war. When the stranger tries to get the meaning by ...