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dawe
dawe
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How are the stories in Dubliners interlinked?

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Posted by dawe on Monday January 7, 2008 at 10:42 AM and tagged with araby, dubliners, gabriel, setting, the sisters, theme.

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  1. linda-allen Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    The stories in James Joyce's book Dubliners are linked by setting and theme. All are set in the Irish city Dublin, and each one deals with some aspect of morality. Joyce described society as being in a "moral paralysis" and explained that his intention in writing these stories was "to write a chapter of the moral history of my country."

    See the eNotes article on Themes and Characters (linked below) for discussion of how the stories reflect moral dilemmas in different times of life.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/dubliners-qn/setting
    http://www.enotes.com/dubliners-qn/themes-characters

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    Posted by linda-allen on Monday January 7, 2008 at 11:58 AM

  2. jono9
    jono9

    Look for examlpes of the "seven deadly sins" portrayed in individual stories.

    For example "lust" in "The boarding House"

    "sloth" in "counterparts"

    "envy" in "A Little Cloud"

    "wrath" in "Counterparts"

    "pride" in "Clay

    Also many of the stories have allusions to Dante

    The best study on the subject is "The Unity of

    dubliners" by  Brewster Ghiselin" which can be found in "Dubliners" Text Criticism and Notes edited byRobert Scholes and A walteon Litz

    Most of the characters are paralized in some way, spiritually

    emotionally, vicitms of circumstance.

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    Posted by jono9 on Saturday March 1, 2008 at 6:03 AM

  3. realove
    realove Student
    Graduate School

    the stories of DUBLINERS are related by the setting and by the theme or common idea which is PARALYSIS? its by moral ,intellectual and emotional paralysis .

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    Posted by realove on Sunday June 8, 2008 at 7:40 AM