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Literature
"Araby" is part of the Dubliners series of short stories by James Joyce, who uses his own personal experiences in the creation of his characters and situations. Joyce makes his characters and their...
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Araby
Understanding the forms of a work of literature helps a reader to grasp the message that the writer intends to impart. There are recognizable forms, essentially prose, poetry and plays made for the...
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Dubliners
When I first read James Joyce's Dubliners, I found the short story "After the Race" to be the most difficult to understand. Indeed, I actually found it boring, initially. However, after reading it...
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Dubliners
Eveline is a 19-year-old girl who finds life in 20th-century Dublin unbearable. She is a dutiful daughter, who takes care of her family, especially her father, who is often drunk and abusive....
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Araby
The overarching theme in "Araby" is stagnation, and this theme is a particularly important one for James Joyce. As a boy, Joyce watched as his family disintegrated, brought down by his father's...
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Dubliners
This is a tricky, but absolutely essential, question. James Joyce's Dubliners relies upon the concept of epiphany, as each story generally involves a character coming to a dramatic realization or...
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Dubliners
Counterparts is one of the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners' series. Farrington is in an unrewarding job and has no motivation to do well. He feels unfairly treated and his manager, Mr. Alleyne...
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Dubliners
The Dead by James Joyce is from The Dubliners series of short stories, all of which reveal aspects of society or flaws of human nature. Gabriel considers himself to be a knowledgeable man, superior...
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Dubliners
Dirt in the Biblical sense represents death--"Dust thou art, unto dust thou shalt return"-- and in James Joyce's Dubliners there is often dust in houses that are on brown lanes, symbolizing the...
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Dubliners
Priests are important figures in Dubliners as they are representative of the Catholic Church, a vitally important part of life in the city of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century, when these...
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Dubliners
The presence of priests in many of the stories contained in James Joyce's Dubliners symbolizes the presence of Catholicism in the lives of the Irish, an often overbearing presence that stultifies...
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Dubliners
In a short story, the setting is a crucial element and, as it creates mood and circumstance, it can be as important as the theme. Short stories need to convey their message in a very short space of...
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Eveline
Eveline is one of the short stories in the Dubliners collection by James Joyce. The opening line, "She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue," prepares the reader for Eveline's...
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Eveline
Eveline one of the stories from Dubliners, relates the story of Eveline, a typical, young, Irish-Catholic girl unable to escape her past or dream of a different future. James Joyce knew this...
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Counterparts
Counterparts is one of the short stories from James Joyce's Dubliners. Fairly typical of the stereotypical Irishman of the time, Farrington is obviously a drinking man, having gone down out for a...
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James Joyce
Farrington is a man, without much enthusiasm, who goes about his work as a clerk in an office in Counterparts, one of the short stories that make up Dubliners by James Joyce. Farrington is...
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Dubliners
It is clear that the characters of Eveline and Polly in these two short stories are very different and are presented in contrasting ways by Joyce. Eveline is a character who feels burdened by her...
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James Joyce
Dubliners is a compliation of short stories by James Joyce. Each story has its own plot and reflects an issue that Joyce had become familiar with whilst growing up in Dublin, Ireland. Polly, from...
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Dubliners
What attracts Eveline more than anything else is the prospect of escape from a life of drudgery, hardship and suffering. The powerful memory she has of how her mother lived her life and how she...
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Dubliners
In both "Eveline" and "The Boarding House," it becomes apparent that the lives of the Irish women of Joyce's stories are certainly limited. For both Eveline and Polly marriage seems to be the only...
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Dubliners
The story makes it clear that Jimmy's father's prosperity has been something that has allowed Jimmy to receive a much higher standard of education than his background and class would have...
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Eveline
Eveline, by James Joyce, one of the short stories in the Dubliners collection, reveals the difficulty in separating duty to family from desire for a better life. Eveline has decided to leave...
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Dubliners
Having intended for Dubliners to be a tableau of the city and its people, both to themselves and to others, James Joyce connects his stories as the "stages of man." For, he has planned three...
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Eveline
In the short story Eveline by James Joyce, Eveline is faced with a critical decision. She has decided, age nineteen, to escape her life of duty and hardship that has little prospect for improvement...
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Dubliners
"Eveline" is certainly an appropriate choice for the essay on Dublin's being "the soul of hemiplegia and paralysis" as the concept of paralysis drives this story. From the very beginning of this...
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Dubliners
While it is beyond the scope herein to consider all the stories of James Joyce's Dubliners, (the stories through "Araby" have expressed epiphanies while the others have epiphanies reserved for...
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Dubliners
Joyce's final story in The Dubliners, "The Dead," is a narrative that indicates that Ireland may have the spiritual resources to overcome its paralysis. These resources come from the human...
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Dubliners
I will sympothize Doran. Mrs.Mooney who had to face a lot of troubles in life, it might had been the reason for her patriachal ideology, (She dealt with moral problems ike a cleaver deals with...
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Dubliners
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Dubliners
These are two very interesting texts to compare. On the face of it, "Pushcart Man" is a rather simplistic poem about the pushcart man who gives his name to the title of the poem and who brings with...
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Dubliners
After a difficult marriage with a drunken husband that ends in separation, Mrs. Mooney opens a boarding house to make a living. Her son, Jack, and daughter, Polly, live with her in the house, which...
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Dubliners
The name Eveline means "little, or small, Eve" which is Hebrew for "life." Of course, the connotations associated with the name Eve are those of the first woman who tempted her mate Adam with the...
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Dubliners
I think that any number of stories from this excellent collection could be referred to in discussing this statement. I would argue, however, that this collection of short stories does present the...
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Dubliners
James Joyce's Dubliners was composed in a tripartite form, with childhood, adolescence, and adulthood as divisions. However, there is also a five-part division with three stories each devoted to...
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Dubliners
The short answer to this question is that it is difficult to tell. Father Flynn is deceased, of course, in the story, so we are left with second hand memories of the man. It is clear that the...
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Dubliners
In James Joyce's writing an epiphany is a sudden revelation of truth about the characters' inner life or their place in society. These moments are central to the development of the stories and, as...
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Dubliners
I agree with the former respondent that, in general, religion is presented as a somewhat repressive force in Joyce's Dubliners. It is often associated with the elderly and with a lack of...
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Dubliners
First of all, in writing a literary analysis of a short story, the writer should remain objective. To do so, one requirement is the elimination of all first-person pronouns, and replacing them...
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Dubliners
In "Araby," an interesting cultural element is revealed. School students seem to have attended school on Saturday: On Saturday morning I reminded my uncle that I wished to go to the bazaarI left...
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Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of 15 stories which are divided into four sections and grouped according to the human development. The first section is about childhood, and it consists of the following...
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Dubliners
As with many of James Joyce's short stories in The Dubliners, "The Sisters" seems to have little to no plot. On the surface little seems to happen. We know from the beginning that Father Flynn is...
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Dubliners
I do enjoy Joyce, but it's not an easy read. I enjoy a challenge though. As for depressing stories, they are entertaining- just not in the same way as happy ones. I can stand hardly anything...
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Dubliners
I enjoy complex stories. I think that's why I like books like this. The language is dense, so I would not say it's exactly fun to read, but I like the development of the plot and characters. I...
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Dubliners
As with many of James Joyce's short stories in The Dubliners, "The Sisters" seems to have little to no plot. On the surface little seems to happen. We know from the beginning that Father Flynn is...
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Dubliners
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Dubliners
"The Mother" is a short story in James Joyce's Dubliners that comes in the section he called "Public Life." Here we see characters interacting somewhat on a broader scale than in many of the...
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Dubliners
The narrator of the first story in Dubliners, "The Sisters", is a nameless main character who is also a young boy, perhaps an acolyte. His best friend is an elderly priest of the Catholic Church...
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Dubliners
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Dubliners
James Joyce's Dubliners follows the thematic concerns of Modernist literature as summarized by the sociologist Georg Simmel: The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the...
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Dubliners
Your question is too big and complicated to answer in this format, so I've edited it down to just a comparison. Environment is central to all of the stories in Joyce's collection, Dubliners, and...