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Mental Eroticism in "A Painful Case"

Dubliners Short Story 4 Pages

The characters whom inhabit Joyce’s world in “Dubliners,” often have, as Harvard Literature Professor Fischer stated in lecture, a “limited way” of thinking about and understanding themselves and the world around them. Such “determinism,” however, operates not on a broad cultural scale, but works in...

Two Versions of "The Sisters" by James Joyce

Dubliners Short Story 3 Pages

James Joyce wrote two versions of his short story “The Sisters,” the first one under the pen name of Stephen Daedalus. Both versions tell the story of a boy and a priest, Father Flynn. The latter dies, and the people around him react to the...

Failed Escapism in "Eveline" by James Joyce's

Dubliners Eveline 3 Pages

James Joyce paints a grim picture of the sheltered life of 19th century women in Dublin, in his story Eveline. Part of a series, called Dubliners, Eveline is the account of a young woman torn between sentimental duty and the opportunity for escape. Eveline chooses...

"The Sisters" and It's Source of Mystery

Dubliners Short Story 2 Pages

In “The Sisters” James Joyce creates an elusive mystery surrounding the death of James Flynn by withholding narrator insight into the events of the story. He achieves this by selecting a young boy as the narrator, whose age is not specified but is hinted at...

The Description of "The Mundane" in Joyce's and Woolf's Works

Dubliners Short Story 4 Pages

‘How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it…’ Virginia Woolf’s The Mark on the Wall suggests a number of ways of considering the mundane in literature....

Happiness and Vulnerability of Childhood in "Dubliners"

Childhood Dubliners Short Story 3 Pages

The theme of childhood is typically presented as one of happiness and youthful freedom. James Joyce takes a different approach, however, as he exposes the vulnerability that naturally comes with childhood but is often not expressed in literature. He does this through his use of...

Urge to Escape: Analyzing "The Dead"

Dubliners The Dead 3 Pages

In the Irish Catholic Society portrayed by James Joyce in Dubliners, the characters live in a world guided by “respectability”, yet some are driven by the urge to escape. Joyce illustrates the reputable populace as false and undesirable, and depicts his protagonists as the few...

Another Look at the "Araby": Critical Perspective

Araby Dubliners 3 Pages

A deconstructionist has many duties, and among them are deriving multiple meanings from a source as well as a destruction of previous criticisms of said source. This essay on deconstruction will take another look at James Joyce’s short story “Araby,” one of fifteen stories from...

Symbolism in "The Dead" by James Joyce

Dubliners The Dead 3 Pages

James Joyce is lauded for his distinct style of writing in free direct discourse. Though his style may seem chaotic and disjointed, Joyce adds a single fixture to his narratives that conveys a unity and connects the otherwise haphazard dialogue. In The Dead, the final...

Feeling of Imprisonment

Dubliners Short Story 2 Pages

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a fearlessly candid portrayal of his native city, providing his readers a glimpse of a “dear dirty Dublin”, and to his countrymen “one good look at themselves”. Joyce’s collection of stories, virtually chronicling the stages of maturation within a human life,...

Women Self Strenght Achieving Through Sexuality in Joyce

Dubliners Novel 9 Pages

Like character actors or members of an ensemble drama, women are omnipresent in Joyce’s literary corpus. In Dubliners, for example, women are painted and developed within a variety of character framings. The reader is exposed to woman as sister (such as the sisters Moran in...

Through Your Own Experience: a Psychoanalytical Analysis of the "Araby"

Araby Dubliners 2 Pages

Probably no other twentieth century short story has called forth more attention than Joyce’s “Araby.” Some universality of experience makes the story interesting to readers of all ages, for they respond instinctively to an experience that could have been their own. The story suggests the...

Gabriel Conroy Characteristic

Dubliners The Dead 2 Pages

In the short story, The Dead from the novel Dubliners by James Joyce, readers are led through a bustling, yet monotonous, dinner party by the protagonist Gabriel Conroy, an intelligent, impersonal, “cold-air” introvert who is constantly found present in his own thoughts, rather than mentally...

Joyce's "The Dead" and Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Comparison

Dubliners Song The Dead The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 7 Pages

Though James Joyce’s realist short story “The Dead” and T.S. Eliot’s mock-epic poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” both describe a climate of self-conscious emotional inarticulacy and division, the protagonists of each work deny themselves the pleasures of the present by their refusal...

Realistic and Symbolic in "Eveline" by James Joyce

Dubliners Eveline 6 Pages

Eveline as Ireland: a realistic and symbolic approach James Joyce has always been widely regarded as a major exponent of ‘the children of a fragmented, pluralistic, sick, weird period’ as Nietzsche called the artists of the time (Bradbury, p. 7). His career as an artist...

Remaining in the Past: the Unhappiness of Gabriel Conroy

Dubliners The Dead 3 Pages

“The Dead” by James Joyce, from Dubliners, centers around the events that take place at an annual Christmas party in Dublin, Ireland. This short story follows the protagonist, Gabriel Conroy, who is thrust into these events, and is the only character that expresses his discontent...

Life of Maria in "Clay" by James Joyce

Dubliners Short Story 3 Pages

In James Joyce’s short story “Clay,” fate forces Maria into a nun-like existence and keeps her from realizing her dream of marriage. She seems content with her position on the exterior, but several clues suggest this is not the case. Joyce makes this clear as...

The Farrington's Case

Dubliners Short Story 2 Pages

In literature authors often attempt to create meaning by causing characters to undergo some form of moral reconciliation or spiritual reassessment. In the case of Dubliners, James Joyce has created a series of stories that center on one central epiphany, that of paralysis within a...

Bitter Truth About Life

Araby Dubliners 4 Pages

In James Joyce’s “Araby”, an arcane glimpse into the life of a young boy is revealed as he passes from a state of naivete into cognizance of his life. We watch as he leads himself through a fateful-ending journey in which he realizes his disillusionment...