Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.” This relates to the theme because it shows that he was both courageous yet fearful.Įven though it was just a hallucination, before his death, Peyton showed great courage by running away from the Union soldiers and making it to the safety of his home. “The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. The theme of courage is not the absence of fear but rather the acceptance of it because Peyton Farquhar’s dead body was compared to a pendulum which symbolized Peyton’s emotions such as courage, fear, grief, and sadness. The second theme of this story is “time is fluid”. The theme of the short story is “courage is not the absence of fear but rather the acceptance of it”.
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