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Comp are and subscriber line the view that An jibe is a tale of constitutionrejecting a piece villain with the view that it is concerned only witha vengeful superegoAn Arrest is an ambiguous report. You can look at it in differentways. single 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 oral communication such as confined and fugitive to describe thestate of Orrin Brower, he creates the image of an animal isolated fromhuman society. This is because confined is usu altogethery a word to do withanimals or mad people who are not allowed to be in contact with humansFurther evidence to escort the argument of Orrin Brower beingportrayed as a savage living creature comes when the author 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 orthink of the consequences of his actions, as a human would he onlyfeels and acknowledges 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 treated like an animal he starts to mean 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 then does not belong in the forest- this provesthat nature will inevitably reach to discard him. As he enters theforest, we are told that the night was pretty risque 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 sleep, food and sex. However our superego dough 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 superego curtly starts operating again and conjures up the image to make theguilty conscience, which comes with it, mellow by sending him backto justice. Bierce seems to have dropped many hints to leave some(prenominal)views arguably correct. Personally, I think Bierce has done thisdeliberately to leave the story as ambiguous as the title.