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Bride Comes To Yellow Sky Verbal Irony
936 wordsIn the mockery of a Western type story, Stephen Cranes The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky has a simple story line with great meaning against inflexibility. With outlandish humor Crane takes the town of Yellow Sky and their marshal Jack Potter through the change of time, proving nothing can stay stagnant. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky is an ironic comedic literary archetype. The characters of Cranes story closely resemble ones found in an ironic comedy with no central character. Jack Potter plays the ...
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Bride Comes To Yellow Sky Damsel In Distress
1,099 wordsMovies and books, about tales of the Old West, are still popular today. They give us a vivid perspective of how the Old West was. Images of the Wild West evoke thoughts of gunfights, saloons, and women in distress waiting to be rescued by the local hero. The movie, High Noon, directed by Fred Zinnemann, takes on the traditional tone that the viewer is all too familiar with. Stephen Cranes story, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky recreates the classic Old West tale of the villain versus the hero whil...
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Bride Comes To Yellow Sky Black And White
1,338 wordsA seemingly traditional approach towards the Western frontier is the reason for John Cawelti's assessment from The Six-Gun Mystique. His description of the Western formula being 'far easier to define than that of the detective story'; may clearly be a paradigm for many authors, but not particularly for Stephen Crane. The standards Cawelti has set forth for a successful Western is quite minimal by thought, but at the same time relevant. Crane signifies a different perspective to these standards. ...
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Contrast In The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky
854 wordsContrast in "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" Stephen Cranes short story Bride Comes to Yellow Sky stands out as a good example of author employing contrast as the method to convey his ideas to the readers. Throughout the story we see the same people, objects and even nature itself manifesting its opposite qualities. Nevertheless, these evolutions are there to emphasize the unchanging nature of mans best qualities of character - chivalry and courage. Marshal Potter is coming back to his home town ...
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Bride Comes To Yellow Sky Stephen Cranes
1,066 wordsCranes Use of Ironic Symbolism in The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Stephen Cranes The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, as well as his other Western stories, owe much to Mark Twain's approach to the West. According to Eric Solomon, both authors used humor to comment on the flaws of traditional fictional processes (237). While employing parody of the Western literary tradition, Crane also uses realism to depict the influence of the East on the West. In The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, Stephen Crane uses symb...
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