Araby Essays and Criticism

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Araby | Essays and Criticism

• Major Themes in Araby

  In the following essay, the author explores the major themes in "Araby," including nationality, religion, and relationships between the sexes.

• Araby: A Quest for Meaning

  In the following essay, Freimarck suggests that "Araby" has a "Grail Quest" story pattern, and uses this classification to examine the boy's quest for the idealized girl, Mangan's sister. (In medieval English legend The Grail was a cup Jesus drank from at the Last Supper that was later used to collect drops of his blood at the Crucifixion. Many of King Arthur's noblest knights went on a "Quest" in search of The Grail and its magical powers.)

• Araby and the Writings of James Joyce

  In the following excerpted essay, he discusses some of the autobiographical elements of "Araby," which include Joyce's childhood in Dublin, Ireland, and how the exoticism of the real-life Araby festival, with its Far Eastern overtones, impacted the young Joyce. Stone also discusses the poet James Mangan's influence on Joyce's framing of the narrator's adoration of (the character of) Mangan's sister.

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