Essays on Eveline

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...

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...

The choices manufactured on a day-to-day basis effect every choice and action in the future. Unfortunately, these choices can be based off different constrictions and outside forces. Throughout the years ones gender could play a extensive part in stagnation and the lack of ability for...

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...

The predominant images in Beauty and the Beast are the rose, ballroom, castle and belle’s ball gown/yellow dress, which are images often associated with women. However in Eveline, a majority of the predominant images are not associated with women being dust, the window, the field,...

A deeper look at Joyce’s ‘Eveline’, and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at a feminist angle, shows the many stereotypes of women present like helplessness, in need of saving, male oppression, only caring about looks and female characters that are portrayed in demeaning ways such as...

The societal structure of eighteenth century London was grounded in rigid class hierarchies. In Burney’s novel Evelina, the title character is born as an illegitimate child without a name because her father refuses to accept her. This situates Evelina at a particularly difficult intersection of...