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Concepts: James Joyce, Dubliners, Samuel Beckett, Dublin, Ulysses, The Dead, Buck Mulligan, Irish people

Failed Escapism in "Eveline" by James Joyce's

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...

Dubliners Eveline 3 Pages

Light as Evil, Dark as Good in "Araby"

Despite the often automatic preconception in literature that darkness and negativity are inextricably linked, darkness is first a protective and natural force of childhood on North Richmond Street. The narrator first mentions darkness when describing the sunset, naming the children’s time of play as beginning...

Araby Dubliners 3 Pages

The Abyss Between Humans and Sacred in "Eveline"

What happens to a dream deferred? According to James Joyce, perhaps nothing. Illustrated in his short story Eveline, this Dublin-born author both poses and responds to the age old-question of comfort versus risk. In a time of upheaval throughout the continent, Eveline serves as an...

Dubliners Eveline Short Story 3 Pages

Gabriel Conroy Characteristic

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...

Dubliners The Dead 2 Pages

Eroticism in James Joyce's Works

It is Joyce’s use of voyeurism that most characterizes the erotic in “The Dead,” “The Boarding House,” “Two Gallants,” and “Araby.” Eroticism is strongly driven by mystery and suspense. By creating a passive individual experiencing sexuality without actual contact, Joyce can use every aspect of...

Dubliners Short Story 3 Pages

Symbolism in "The Dead" by James Joyce

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...

Dubliners The Dead 3 Pages

Gaze Through the Window: Paralyses in Joyce's "Dubliners"

Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word, paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me...

Dubliners Short Story 8 Pages

Deep Dive in Symbolism of "A Mother"

The thirteenth of fifteen stories in James Joyce’s Dubliners collection, “A Mother,” can be seen as something of a break between the heavy, serious vignettes in its vicinity. It can be seen as a story to chuckle at; after all, the title character is an...

Dubliners Short Story 4 Pages

"The Sisters" and it's Source of Mystery

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...

Dubliners Short Story 2 Pages

Happiness and Vulnerability of Childhood in "Dubliners"

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...

Childhood Dubliners Short Story 3 Pages