The Boarded Window | Analysis

Her finder du Studienets guide til novellen "The Boarded Window" af Ambrose Bierce. Med denne guide får du et godt overblik over novellen og indsigt i de væsentligste analytiske elementer:

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Titel: “The Boarded Window”
Forfatter: Ambrose Bierce
Udgivelsesår: 1891
Genre: Novelle

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - circa 1914) var en amerikanske forfatter og journalist. Hans værker var domineret af to temaer: Den amerikanske borgerkrig og det overnaturlige. Han er mest kendt for hans noveller om borgerkrigen. Forfatteren forsvandt i 1913, da han sluttede sig til revolutionen i Mexico. "The Boarded Window", som oprindelig havde titlen "The Boarded Window: An Incident in the Life of an Ohio Pioneer" er et af Bierces mindre kendte værker og leger med det overnaturlige, men ender med en naturlig forklaring på hændelserne i novellen.

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Title

The title of the short story refers to an element of the setting, the boarded window of the main’s character cabin in the forest. Before reading the story, the title does not tell us anything about the action itself, but readers can suspect the story is going to be about the reasons why the given window is boarded. After reading the story, we realize that, indeed, the whole narrative explains why the main character, Murlock has boarded the only window from the cabin he lives in. It was because, in his youth, a panther crept through the window and killed his alleged dead wife.