Essays on Literary Genres

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The Role and Creation of Myth in Dutchman

5 pages / 2340 words

“The Flying Dutchman” is a nautical myth about a ghost ship fated to traverse the ocean waves for all eternity. The story is rooted in the legend of Hendrik van der Decken, a 17th-century Dutch Captain who dared to sail beyond the Cape of Good...

Drama Literature Review

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The Abyss Between Humans and Sacred in "Eveline"

3 pages / 1168 words

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

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The Power of Inevitable in "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night"

5 pages / 2246 words

Dylan Thomas expertly investigates notions of reality and higher power as he reflects on life and death in his poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Seemingly a rejection of religion and God altogether, the poem never directly states a presence of a...

Poetry

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

8 pages / 3640 words

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

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

4 pages / 2045 words

‘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…’ Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences...

Dubliners Short Story

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Wandering Blindly: The Idea of "Araby"

3 pages / 1408 words

Darkness and light are everywhere, and one cannot exist without the other. However, a combination of the two creates shadows in which a world can be altered into a form of dusk, twilight. It is in this shadowy light that a person may find themselves...

Araby Dubliners Short Story

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"The Sisters" and It's Source of Mystery

2 pages / 740 words

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

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The Effects of Social Pressure on The Characters in Dubliners

4 pages / 1613 words

Even though money can’t buy happiness, the lack of money is usually the cause of sadness. Poverty is, in fact, a widespread problem that can sometimes restrict and even imprison a person to the point that struggling seems pointless. In Dubliners by James Joyce, the...

Dubliners Short Story

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Jimmy Doyle in "After The Race" by James Joyce

2 pages / 794 words

Introduction Just one of the many short stories compiled in James Joyce’s Dubliners, “After the Race” is an effective portrayal of the shame and misfortune that result from Jimmy Doyle’s efforts to become accepted by a wealthy group of men. His constant desire to present...

Character Dubliners Short Story

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The Farrington's Case

2 pages / 957 words

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...

Dubliners Short Story

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Deconstructing The Old Style of Writing in "A Mother"

2 pages / 1137 words

James Joyce’s A Mother is a short story based around the life of Mrs. Kearney, a strong-willed woman whose breach of convention results in the destruction of her acclaimed reputation. Joyce’s linguistic use of naturalism, modernism, and feminism, exemplifies the “paralysis”[1] of Dublin’s rigid societal...

Dubliners Short Story

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Eroticism in James Joyce's Works

3 pages / 1351 words

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

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Happiness and Vulnerability of Childhood in "Dubliners"

3 pages / 1218 words

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

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Deep Dive in Symbolism of "A Mother"

4 pages / 1924 words

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

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Life of Maria in "Clay" by James Joyce

3 pages / 1340 words

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...

Dubliners Short Story

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Life and Death in "Dubliners" by James Joyce

2 pages / 1071 words

Much of Dubliners revolves around the weary contemplation of mortality, the apex of which appears in the novel’s endpiece, “The Dead,” which serves as the perfect counterpart to “The Sisters,” bookending the collection of stories with a cyclic emphasis on the intersection between life and...

Dubliners Short Story

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Two Versions of "The Sisters" by James Joyce

3 pages / 1370 words

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...

Dubliners Short Story

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Urban Life in Dublin: Duality in "Two Gallants"

3 pages / 1159 words

Duality and Paralysis in “Two Gallants” Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay James Joyce’s “Two Gallants”, from Dubliners, is at first glance the tale of two men...

Dubliners Short Story

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Duffy as The Bermensch in "A Painful Case"

4 pages / 1762 words

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, “‘free spirits’…do not exist, did not exist” but “could one day exist” (18). Mr. James Duffy, the protagonist of James Joyce’s “A Painful Case” in Dubliners, has characteristics similar to that of Nietzsche’s theoretical overman. Nevertheless, although Duffy appears to live...

Character Dubliners Short Story