Essays on Literary Genres

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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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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

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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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"The Little Cloud" from a Feminist Perspective

3 pages / 1427 words

Dubliners was published in 1914 and written by James Joyce, who was born in 1882. When applying feminist theory to the Dubliners short stories, one must keep in mind that although feminism had its start in the 19th century, many of the formative feminist essays...

Dubliners Short Story

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Symbolism in "Clay" by James Joyce

3 pages / 1355 words

James Joyce’s “Clay” is a remarkable explication of Irish folklore and the societal issues that plague turn-of-the-century Dublin. Following Maria on the night of Halloween, the story combines imagery and symbolism throughout. In S. A. Cowan’s article “Celtic Folklore in ‘Clay’: Maria and the Irish...

Dubliners Short Story

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Women Self Strenght Achieving Through Sexuality in Joyce

9 pages / 4116 words

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...

Dubliners Novel

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Shame Histories as a Connector of Different Cultures

7 pages / 3224 words

If cultures are considered unifiable by way of shared stories, it is not inconceivable that cultures may be connected through distinguishable but ultimately similar histories of shame. Whether or not these histories force upon cultures the role of “persecutors” or “victims”, it is more than...

Short Story

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Feeling of Imprisonment

2 pages / 1080 words

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,...

Dubliners Short Story

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Mental Eroticism in "A Painful Case"

4 pages / 1003 words

In James Joyce’s “A Painful Case,” mental eroticism plays a pivotal role in shaping the relationship between Mr. Duffy and Mrs. Sinico. This relationship is characterized not by physical intimacy but by an intricate exchange of thoughts and ideas, which Joyce frames within an erotic...

Dubliners Short Story

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"The Fifth Child" by Doris Lessing: Where Leads The Unawareness

2 pages / 1084 words

In Doris Lessing’s novel The Fifth Child, there are two main characters that are unaware of some, if not most, of the things they do. This unconsciousness the characters experience is what leads to inevitable conflict in the story: the distance that grows between the...

Novel

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Analyzing "Netochka Nezvanova" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

2 pages / 778 words

In the unfinished novel Netochka Nezvanova, Fyodor Dostoevsky portrays Alexandra’s letter from her former lover S.O. as a parallel for little Netochka and Katya’s relationship/friendship. It is perhaps nclear what a 19th century Russian author intended by this arrangement; nonetheless, this relationship whether romantic or...

Literature Review Novel

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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Book "Dream of a Ridiculous Man": Analysis

4 pages / 1912 words

When Albert Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus [1], he demonstrated the absurdity of human existence in the indifferent universe with the ridiculous task of pushing a rock up a hill an infinite number of times. Every time Sisyphus pushed the rock to the top...

Choices Fiction

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Contextualizing "To Room Nineteen" by Doris Lessing

2 pages / 815 words

In Doris Lessing’s short story, “To Room Nineteen” Susan and Matthew Rawling seem to be the perfect couple, until Matthew begins to have affairs and Susan is left alone to her own thoughts and eventually goes mad and kills herself. An underlying theme that Lessing...

Fantastic

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Lessing's "A Sunrise on The Veld": Critical Analysis

3 pages / 1335 words

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, Doris Lessing crafted fiction that is deeply infused with autobiographical touches, especially from her experiences in Africa. All of her works center around modern themes such as the clash of cultures, the gross injustices of racial...

Short Story