Compare the use of similar themes and language devices in both 'Araby' and 'Eveline' by James Joyce.
James Joyce uses similar themes and language devices in both 'Araby' and 'Eveline.' Although this is so, there are also important differences to be noted. Joyce wrote these stories over one hundred years ago but yet we can still relate to the issues covered in the modern world today. James Joyce could have written these short stories as an inspiration from his own background or based them on the events happening in Dublin at that time. These stories were written as a new century was beginning. The people of Dublin soon realised the sense of hope for the new century had faded due to the fall and death of Parnell. This relates to both of the stories as a sense of false hope is given in each. Joyce sensed exhaustion and emptiness in Dublin and these are also the emotional results in both stories. In 'Araby,' the story is written in first person narrative. This gives you a chance to get a detailed point of view of the boy's feelings. This makes you more emotionally involved in the story, as it becomes more convincing if you understand the range of emotions the boy is going through. On top of this, the story is written as though it were an event, which happened many years ago. It could have been a significant event in his life as it is very much portrayed in this way. In 'Eveline,' the narration is third person. Although the feelings are not expressed deeply, you can still get
An analytical study of 'The Pit and The Pendulum', 'An Encounter' and 'The Pedestrian', focusing on the themes of paralysis, entrapment and isolation
An analytical study of 'The Pit and The Pendulum', 'An Encounter' and 'The Pedestrian', focusing on the themes of paralysis, entrapment and isolation The texts chosen for this study are: 'The Pit and The Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe and 'An Encounter' by James Joyce which, I feel, are appropriate as they provide comprehensive coverage of the themes analysed whilst managing to cover a historical period of some seventy years1. Poe's piece is a dark, Gothic work which deals, in great depth, with the notion of both mental and physical paralysis encompassed in an entrapping and isolated atmosphere. Joyce, on the other hand, takes a characteristically more diverse and subtle approach to the concept of paralysis, cunningly concealing the theme within the stagnant surroundings of his Dublin. Verbal 'entrapment' is furthermore offered in the form of a dubious elderly man. The story 'An Encounter' by James Joyce amply exhibits many stylistic features associated with the modernist author - for example the use of epiphany or writing through first person narrative, with inner monologue to highlight the consciousness of the protagonist and also subtly divulge the feelings of others to the perhaps more 'aware' readership. However, Poe, on the contrary, chooses to play the cards of shock and terror in a style which is far more explicit and gruesome in comparison with Joyce's incorporation
Discuss Dead Men's Path, by Chinua Achebe, and Snapshots Of A Wedding, by Bessie Head.
English essay: How two short Stories reflect different cultures For this essay I am going to discuss Dead Men's Path, by Chinua Achebe, and Snapshots Of A Wedding, by Bessie Head. These are both short stories from the Opening Worlds book by Heinemann. Written by the Nigerian son of devout Protestants, Dead Men's Path is a profound short story, which explores the modernisation of Africa through beliefs and also the effects of Western customs and ideas on traditional African society. It tells the story of one man trying to modernise Ndume Central School in Africa where he has recently been made Headmaster. Although only 26, Michael Obi has a very high opinion of himself, and a somewhat over-inflated ego. He sees himself to be above others and superior to them because he is educated: 'He was outspoken in his condemnation of the narrow views of these older and often less-educated ones.' With his young wife Nancy supporting his radical ideas and views of a modern school, not just in teaching method but also in appearance, Obi tries to bring the 'backwards' school up to date by teaching the children to 'laugh' at the beliefs of their forefathers. When Obi discovers an ancient path that goes through the compound of the school, he is amazed that the other teachers have allowed the villagers to use it, as it goes right through the new hedges and Marigold beds. After learning
JOYCE: Dubliners
JOYCE: Dubliners (a) The first story in the collection- 'The Sisters'- is a particularly strange and puzzling one. Explore Joyce's use of language in the story and explain what meaning and significance the story has for you. In 'The Sisters', strange and puzzling events occur that remain unexplained. 'Dubliners' opens with 'The Sisters', which explores death and the process of remembering the dead. The story deals with a young boy's (whom is the narrator) encounter on death to a close friend (the priest) whom he cares for. When his account of the event begins, he is full of fear and unwilling to accept that the priest will actually die. Once he hears that the death has occurred he is upset and tries to hide the fact. He remembers the priest and his kindness, his scrupulous teaching in spite of his worsening illness. Father Flynn suffers from paralyzing strokes and eventually dies, but the reader never learns exactly what's wrong with him. Joyce presents just enough information so that the reader suspects, in which this case I did, Father Flynn as a malevolent figure, but never enough so that the reader knows the full story. For example, in the first paragraph of the story the narrator thinks of the word paralysis when looking at Father Flynn's window and connects the word with 'gnomon'. Joyce does this through language; he points to details and suggestions, but never
DUBLINERS - What picture do you think that Joyce gives of growing up in Dublin in the era when the book was written?
ENGLISH GCSE COURSEWORK - DUBLINERS Q) What picture do you think that Joyce gives of growing up in Dublin in the era when the book was written? A) While Joyce was growing up in Ireland he became disenchanted with his nation and the oppressive influence the Catholic Church had over the country. Joyce's intention when writing the book was to write a moral history of his country and he chose Dublin as it seemed to him to be the "centre of the paralysis" that seized it. The stories at the beginning of Dubliners are about youth and as the story progresses they concern older people and the last book is called The Dead. To answer this question I am going to use three of the short stories from Dubliners; An Encounter, Araby and Eveline. I have chosen these three stories as they are near the start of the book and thus detail young people's lives in Dublin, a feature of the book I can, as a teenager, identify with. ARABY This is the first of these stories and there are several elements within that hint at the dull lifestyle experienced by the young boy that the story focuses upon. Near the start of the book it talks about how one boy's parents "went to 8 o'clock Mass every morning", leaving the boy behind on his own. This shows the dominant effect that religion had upon Irish family life at that time and how it took up much of peoples' time, in this case meaning that the
Looking at the denouement of The Dead, discuss the emotional variety of Gabriel.
Looking at the denouement (pages 217 - 224) of The Dead, discuss the emotional variety of Gabriel. In the denouement of "The Dead" Gabriel's mood oscillates between different emotions until, at the end, an epiphany comes upon him. This climatic epiphany at the end has been alluded to throughout the story. The effect of this realisation is enhanced by the emotions which preceded it. When Gabriel and Gretta leave the cab and go into the hotel Gabriel is almost in a state of euphoria. "The first touch of her body, musical and strange and perfumed, sent through him a keen pang of lust" During their journey back from the party he reflected nostalgically upon their honey moon and his lust for her seems to have been rekindled. In his enamoured state he feels an acute sense of passion towards his wife. As they climb the stairs of the hotel, "Only the stress of his nails against the palms of his hands held the wild impulse of his body in check" The reference to "nails" and "palms" alludes to the crucifixion of Jesus, similar allusions are used later on in the story. His excited state of ardour when juxtaposed against his mood later on serves to emphasise it in its contrast. Gabriel also feels a sense of escapism which is part of what contributed to his euphoric state, "He felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away
James Joyce's Alter Ego - In James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus, a young man growing up, has many of the same traits of the young James Joyce.
Brett Clothier 16 December 2002 Mr. Suchman En-451-4th Period James Joyce's Alter Ego In James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus, a young man growing up, has many of the same traits of the young James Joyce. For example, "On 1 September 1888, at the age of 'half-past-six', Joyce was taken by his parents to be enrolled in the finest Catholic preparatory school in Ireland, Clongowes Wood College, situated about twenty miles west of Dublin in the countryside near Clane"(Anderson, James Joyce 15). This is the same school Stephen Dedalus attends in the novel. This is one of the many ways James Joyce uses this novel to portray his life. James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be read autobiographically. According to David Daiches, James Joyce "...transmuted autobiography into objective action..."(Daiches). James Joyce wrote an account of his life and turned it into an interesting story, and also one of the greatest books ever written. Joyce is letting the reader know all about himself through this book. Harold Bloom notes " 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,' of course, is autobiography...Joyce is turning himself inside out, spilling forth all the jangled moods that lie deep in artistic consciousness"(Bloom 38). Joyce brings himself out in Stephen. Instead of letting the reader know all about himself through an
A Holiday To France.
A Holiday To France. It was Monday the 14th of May. It was a cold, windy and wet day. I got up at about 6:30 am as I was going to France with the school. There wre 40 pupils and 7 teachers going. I was very excited but scared too as I had never been away from home without my family. We all had to be up in the school for 7:45am as the bus was leaving for Dublin at 8:00am. It took us five and a half hours to get to Dublin airport, but on the way there we stopped for something to eat. We got to the airport about 1:30pm and our flight left Dublin at 2:30pm to go to Paris. We landed in Paris at 5:30pm, ( but 4:30pm your time as France is a hour ahead of us ). We had to get on another bus to take us to a lake in Paris. Here we got on a boat and cruised up and down the seine looking at all the famous places, pictures and buildings. I thought the boat tip was very boring and it was cold and wet and I was tired. At last we got to the hotel and it was about 11:30pm. We were quicky put into groups to share rooms and given the keys for our rooms. On Wednesday morning, we all had to be up at 7:30am and down stairs for breaskfast at 8:30am as we were going to Disney Land. At about 9:15am we got on the bus and we were on our way to Disney Land. Everyone was excited and couldn't wait to get there. We finally arrived at Disney Land at 11:30am. When we got insude Disney Land it was bigger
Theme of discovery in "the Murder", "The Dead" and "Clay"
Theme of discovery in "the Murder", "The Dead" and "Clay" In the three short stories, you can see how all of the characters are discover their destiny, and become self-aware of their condition. In "the Dead" this is extremely obvious, as Gabriel (the main character), after misreading several signals that were supposed to warn him about the mood his wife was in, realises that he actually does not understand the person he had married, and that he had been fooling himself both intellectually and emotionally. By trying to escape from that paralysis that affected all of Ireland, as the excess of patriotism symbolised by Miss Ivors would prevent him from taking advantage of what the continent offers, he also prevented himself from learning about what he already had. He does not understand his wife, and he never really manages to escape from Ireland's influence anyway, what becomes obvious when seeing his reaction towards Miss Ivor's accusation. All of these things allow him to realise that, as he will never free himself, he might as well accept his destiny, by starting "his journey towards westward". His paralysis now will be complete, what is symbolised by the "snow", which falls "all over Ireland". In "the Clay", another James Joyce story, Maria (the main character) also discovers their destiny and what that predestined condition entitles. It also involves paralysis and the
Dubliners, death and paralysis
"Joyce depicts Dublin as a place of death and paralysis" Joyce see's Dublin as being paralysed and dead he blames the British rule and the Cathoic Church for Dublin's flawed and seedy nation. Joyce see's Dublin as being full of untrustworthy peope. A lot of characters in his stories are not to be trusted for example: Lennhen and Corley in The Two Gallants and the Peadophile in An Encounter. He felt life in Dublin had many limitations and this frustrated him. Which is why he makes death and paralysis very evident in the stories of The Dubliner's, possibly to try to identify the cause of Dublin's paralysis or to offer solutions. Joyce provides this theory through his use of characters, colours and decay. Charles Stewart Parnell an Irish MP who led the Irish Parliamentary Party was campaining in the later 19th century to persuade the British parliament to allow Ireland to govern itself (HomeRule.) After his death in 1891 the campaign for Home Rule was weakened severly. That resulted, in Irish political life was without clear direction throughout the 1890's and the first decade of the 20th century. The lack of political leadership is made apparent in the dubliners by the atmosphere of paralysis which pervades the stories. Ireland was, in the time that the Dubliners was wrote was governed by England. The British controlled Ireland very strongly and you can see the reference