An Inhabitant Of Carcosa By Ambrose Bierce - 914 Words

In one of Ambrose Bierce s short story, An Inhabitant of Carcosa, an unknown narrator recalls his experience on traveling across an unfamiliar wilderness. How does he learn through it with his sense of perception or consciousness? Who is the narrator and why does he narrate his journey into or out of an unknown reality? These questions manipulate the reader that limits our human senses and perception when this narrator does not know what things he has seen or heard. The short section on page 58 describes the narrator s journey to a full extent because the narration contains imagery and meaningful symbols/motifs that would help us understand the prose that emphasizes the mystery behind the narrator s self-realization. Throughout the narrator s journey, he has nowhere to go in the wilderness because he felt a sense of exhilaration and vigor altogether unknown to me- a feeling of mental and physical exaltation (58). The narrator recalls his experience through the wilderness as mysteriou s and unsettling in which he encounters strange illusions or sounds he has not seen nor heard. At first, he observes the wilderness as a land of doom filled with cold air, and he does not hear any natural sounds of animals or people from within. Also, he becomes more doubtful about the wilderness as more silence breaks into the story further. Along the way, the narrator tries to relax his thoughts because his senses seemed all alert and he could feel the air as a ponderous