Discourse and Power in “Chickamauga”
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“Chickamauga”, Ambrose Bierce’s short novel about the Civil War, tells the story of a six-year-old boy who breaks into the forest alone and eventually learns the truth of the war. Instead of portraying and praising the heroic image of soldiers as traditional war novels do, Bierce shows the defeated soldiers, their wounds, ugly appearances and silence, exposes the cruelty of the war, and breaks people’s illusions about the war. From the perspective of Foucault’s discourse and power theory, this paper analyzes the power mechanism behind the belligerence and aphasia of the little boy and the broken image of the soldiers. The dominators employ the power to launch wars and control the civilians and soldiers’ ideology and make them silent in order to achieve their own economic and political purposes. They, the dominators regardless of the lives of civilians and soldiers, make them get involved in the brutal war and become the victims.
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“Chickamauga”, Ambrose Bierce’s short novel about the Civil War, tells the story of a six-year-old boy who breaks into the forest alone and eventually learns the truth of the war. Instead of portraying and praising the heroic image of soldiers as traditional war novels do, Bierce shows the defeated soldiers, their wounds, ugly appearances and silence, exposes the cruelty of the war, and breaks people’s illusions about the war. From the perspective of Foucault’s discourse and power theory, this paper analyzes the power mechanism behind the belligerence and aphasia of the little boy and the broken image of the soldiers. The dominators employ the power to launch wars and control the civilians and soldiers’ ideology and make them silent in order to achieve their own economic and political purposes. They, the dominators regardless of the lives of civilians and soldiers, make them get involved in the brutal war and become the victims.
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