Sunday, 24 March 2019
Inevitability of Change in Stephen Cranes The Bride Comes to Yellow Sk
Inevitability of Change in Stephen put outs The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky populace are creatures of habit. In his work The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, Stephen exsert considers this apparent maxim as well as its sometimes unfortunate consequences. In the story, pebbly Wilson and Jack Potter face a dramatically changing society. Although their actions and emotions concerning the transmutes in their township differ, jumpy and Potter are both very afraid(predicate) of the inescapable easternizing influences. Through Scratchy and Potters embracing of the Old westbound, their responses to the East, and their optimism, Stephen Crane illustrates that whether shackle or resistance exists, change is inevitable.To emphasize the difficulty and inevitability of change, Crane displays the characters attachments to the Old West. Scratchy, the sole survivor of an old gang, plays out his beloved foregone by rampaging Yellow Sky with his long revolvers and drunken curses. His creeping fron t line of a midnight cat, chants of Apache scalp-music, and terrible invitations all portray Scratchys devotion to the Old West. Scratchys loyalty to his historic clearly emphasizes his resistance to change and foreshadows that change will defeat him no matter how long or how hard he plays the game. Potter in addition plays along by acting as the town marshal who must(prenominal) save Yellow Sky and heroically put an end to the town terror. Nevertheless, though Potter is attached to the Old West, he embraces the new West with his marriage. Unlike Scratchy, Potter accepts that Yellow Sky is changing and decides to change with it. Crane uses this acceptance to show that change is sometimes easier for some than for others. Potter continues to skin and worries what his hometown will d... ... forever. The awaycoming is now unreachable for him. On the other hand, Potter, though apprehensive like Scratchy, slowly opens his heart to the changing world. Through Scratchy and Potter, Cr ane establishes two choices one tush either resist change as Scratchy does and remain unhappy until the end, or one can accept change as Potter eventually does and further his future and happiness. mankinds are creatures of habit where stability and comfort come first. Ironically, though fully aware of it, humans are always surprised at and afraid of change and how to handle it. Through his work, Stephen Crane brilliantly sets forth that one has no control over what is to come but still how he or she chooses to face it.Works CitedCrane, Stephen. Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Literature The Human Experience. 8th ed. Ed. Richard Abcarian and Marvin Klotz. Boston Bedford, 2002.
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