Compare and contrast the view that ‘An Arrest’ is a tale of nature Essa

Compargon and contrast the view that An Arrest is a chronicle of naturerejecting a tender villain with the view that it is concerned moreover witha vengeful superegoAn Arrest is an ambiguous story. You can look at it in differentways. One way to see it is as a tale of nature rejecting a humanvillain. This view is put forward right from the beginning. When thenarrator uses words such as confined and fugitive to describe the subject of Orrin Brower, he creates the externalize of an animal isolated fromhuman society. This is because confined is usually a word to do withanimals or mad people who are not allowed to be in contact with humansFurther evidence to support the argument of Orrin Brower beingportrayed as a savage beast comes when the origin writes that he had,recovered liberty, which is like an animal being released into thewild. Orrin Brower does not feel guilty for beating Burton Duff or judge of the consequences of his actions, as a human would he onlyfeels and acknowledg es his freedom which is an animal-like thing todo. When he is on the run he decides to escape to the forest which maybe as he is handle like an animal he starts to believe that he isone. The fact that the narrator states he had the folly to enter aforest suggests that even though he thinks of himself as an animal,Brower is not and therefore does not belong in the forest- this provesthat nature will inevitably try to discard him. As he enters theforest, we are told that the iniquity was pretty dark with neither moonnor stars visible which could be seen as a nature trying to confuseBrower. We begin to doubt Browers animal-like image when Biercewrites, Brower had never dwelt thereabout, and knew nothing of thelay ... ...re following him to the prison was not human atall.As I mentioned earlier Brower has committed some serious crimes whichare the result of the id part of his brain taking over. The id is thepart of our brain which wants all our basic needs- our Inner Desires-such as s leep, food and sex. However our superego stops us frombecoming lazy, greedy or rapists. What happened to Brower is that hisid took over and his superego was shunned so he committed these crimeswithout any guilt. At the clearing in the forest, Browers superegosuddenly starts operating over again and conjures up the image to make theguilty conscience, which comes with it, disappear by sending him backto justice. Bierce seems to have dropped many hints to leave bothviews arguably correct. Personally, I think Bierce has done thisdeliberately to leave the story as ambiguous as the title.