Coup De Grace Essay
Bierce's "Coup de Grace" introduces the reader to three characters: Major Halcrow, Captain Madwell and Sergeant Halcrow, all of whom are struggling with the conflicts that arise within themselves and between each other during war. The death scene in this work sheds light upon a raging hatred two men have for one another and a bond between two soldiers that impacts a crucial decision.
The death scene illustrates a wretched and macabre death, that of which no man should have to be subjected to. Sergeant Halcrow is first found suffering through excruciating pain because of a pig that has eaten at his stomach leaving a "wide, ragged opening in the abdomen
[and], protruding from it
a loop of small intestine." (2) Captain Madwell sees his friend suffering and in an attempt to put him out of his misery, cocks his pistol, places the weapon at the side of Halcrow's head and pulls the trigger. When Madwell fails to hear a gunshot and realizes that there are no more bullets, he resorts......
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