How we cite our quotes: (Part.Paragraph)
Quote #1
It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring at the center of the bridge; they merely blockaded the two ends of the foot planking that traversed it. (1.1)
Though the soldiers guard the execution, they don't seem to know what is going on. Maybe choosing to ignore the hanging makes their duty easier.
Quote #2
As these thoughts, which have here to be set down in words, were flashed into the doomed man's brain rather than evolved from it the captain nodded to the sergeant. The sergeant stepped aside. (1.7)
Right before his death, Farquhar's thoughts are rapid and incoherent while his executioners act with precision and foresight. It's as if they're experience the same moment in completely different ways.
Quote #3
These sensations were unaccompanied by thought. The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion. (3.1)
After falling through the bridge, Farquhar becomes a completely physical being. Because he is in danger, his body takes over and his mind shuts down.
Quote #4
He was not conscious of an effort, but a sharp pain in his wrist apprised him that he was trying to free his hands. He gave the struggle his attention, as an idler might observe the feat of a juggler, without interest in the outcome. What splendid effort!—what magnificent, what superhuman strength! Ah, that was a fine endeavor! Bravo! (3.2)
At many points during his miraculous escape, Farquhar is a spectator of his own actions. Like an audience member at a play, Farquhar cheers himself on, amazed by, but disconnected from, his own efforts.
Quote #5
He was now in full possession of his physical senses. They were, indeed, preternaturally keen and alert. Something in the awful disturbance of his organic system had so exalted and refined them that they made record of things never before perceived. (3.3)
Farquhar's physical perception of the world is changed and improved by his hanging. He looks at and feels the world around him more strongly than before, but does his intellectual perception improve?
Quote #6
He had come to the surface facing down the stream; in a moment the visible world seemed to wheel slowly round, himself the pivotal point, and he saw the bridge, the fort, the soldiers upon the bridge, the captain, the sergeant, the two privates, his executioners. (3.4)
From the beginning of the story, Farquhar acts as though the universe revolves around him. His belief (some might say arrogance) in his own abilities leads to his downfall. After his hanging, the world matches his perception by whirling around him at the center.
Quote #7
All that day he traveled, laying his course by the rounding sun. The forest seemed interminable; nowhere did he discover a break in it, not even a woodman's road. He had not known that he lived in so wild a region. There was something uncanny in the revelation. (3.16)
Despite his supposed revelation and the strangeness of the forest, Farquhar doesn't realize that he isn't actually on the road home – he's hanging.
Quote #8
The black bodies of the trees formed a straight wall on both sides, terminating on the horizon in a point, like a diagram in a lesson in perspective. Overhead, as he looked up through this rift in the wood, shone great golden stars looking unfamiliar and grouped in strange constellations. He was sure they were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance. The wood on either side was full of singular noises, among which—once, twice, and again—he distinctly heard whispers in an unknown tongue. (3.17)
As he draws closer to home (and to death), Farquhar's thoughts become more fevered and paranoid. He slowly loses the ability to understand and interpret the world around him.