While no major events take place in the opening chapter of Ulysses, it remains an important one because it introduces the elements that will play out as the novel continues.
While no major events take place in the opening chapter of Ulysses, it remains an important one because it introduces the elements that will play out as the novel continues. In relation to the rest of the novel, the opening chapter raises a series of questions that the reader expects the remainder of the novel to build on. The full significance of many of these events are not apparent in the opening chapter, but they reveal their importance as the novel progresses. These elements introduced include the characters of Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, the major problem of Stephen Dedalus, and the setting. Each of these will now be considered in turn, both describing how they are presented in the opening chapter, and how this links to the remainder of the novel. Joyce also highlights the relationship between Mulligan and Stephen: In the opening chapter of Ulysses Mulligan links his arm in Stephen's....both listed as characters for the Telemachus episode on one of the Ulysses note-sheets, an indication of the importance Joyce attached to Stephen's association of the two companions.1 Buck Mulligan is the first character introduced in the Telemachus episode, he is the flatmate of Stephen and in many ways, represents an opposite to Stephen. He is extroverted, has little self-awareness or conscious, and appears to be much better off with this character than Stephen is with
Of Being Trapped: Male and Female Paralysis in Dubliners
Williamson Nikkita Williamson ENGL 4510 Dr. T. Thompson 27 March 2012 Of Being Trapped: Male and Female Paralysis in Dubliners A pattern that tends to emerge in each of the stories contained within Dubliners by James Joyce is characters that are paralyzed. Joyce himself would write in a letter to Grant Richards that "[m]y intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the center of paralysis" (Myers 4). Dubliners, contains twelve seemingly independent stories that each deal with the theme of paralysis brought on by love. This theme is both obviously stated and subtly hinted at in the various stories. There is a difference though in the cases of paralysis brought on by love. Only four of the cases concern a major female while the rest have to deal with a major or minor male character. This could be explained by saying that Joyce had a majority of male leads because he himself was obviously male and thus he could write the character better. Evidence to the contrary though comes from the stories about the major females themselves in which Joyce had written the ladies just as well as the men. Now, it's not just the ratio of male to female stories being the main difference, there is also a difference in how Joyce represents the genders in the love-based paralysis. This secondary difference
“I struggle to keep writing as much as possible in male hands as much as possible as I distrust the feminine in literature.” (T.S. Eliot). Discuss with examples.
"I struggle to keep writing as much as possible in male hands as much as possible as I distrust the feminine in literature." (T.S. Eliot). Discuss with examples. Both T.S Eliot and James Joyce are acknowledged by critics as modernist writers. The Wasteland by T.S Eliot is, like Ulysses, concerned, to varying degrees, with humankind and early twentieth century society. Both Joyce's novel and Eliot's poem utilise a range of different voices in order to convey a sense of fragmentation and incoherence. It is interesting therefore that their views on the feminine in literature should oppose each other so violently. At first glance, Ulysses, with its two male protagonists - Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, may appear to oppress the feminine voice in favour of the masculine. A closer reading of the text however soon emphasises the opposite, as Joyce's constant interweaving and conflicting of the masculine voices with the feminine can be recognised as the basis of the novel. Feminist critics such as Cixous1 have argued that modernist writing as a genre embraces the feminine aspects of literature in its characteristic flow and textual fragmentation. In order to write Ulysses it is impossible for Joyce to disregard or distrust the feminine in literature as, despite his obviously male perspective, both masculine and feminine voices are essential if Joyce is to create a convincing
The Dead By James Joyce
MICHAEL ARRHENIUS DIT, AUNGIER STREET THE DEAD BY JAMES JOYCE A STUDY OF THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER WRITTEN INTRODUCTION The Dead - The greatest love story ever written! How can that be? Is it really true that measly 35 pages can be looked upon as greater than the great love stories we so often talk about, like Romeo & Juliet, Deidre & Naisi, or nowadays even Titanic? I was intrigued by that question and I wanted to read The Dead, then see it and then read it again, just to see what it is that makes this such a great love story. I was stunned, amused and finally glad for what the story showed me. It's the first time that I've ever read anything of Mr. James Joyce but the feeling that The Dead left me with will live on in me and make me pick up more of his famous works. JAMES JOYCE James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd of February in 1882. He was born at 41 Brighton Square in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar. He was the oldest of 10 children and while growing up the family was never a stranger to poverty and they experienced a severe economic and social disadvantage. Reading had been a favourite pleasure for Joyce since early years and even though his economic disadvantage, he still managed to attend the Jesuit schools Conglowes Wood College, Belvedere College and University College, Dublin. His greatest influences were Dante, Hauptmann, Yeats and Ibsen,
Assess the role of Carr in 'Travesties' by Tom Stoppard
Assess the role of Carr in 'Travesties' by Tom Stoppard The play ">Travesties"> concerns the relationship between art and politics. The three major historical figures in the play - James Joyce, Lenin and Tristan Tzara - represent contrasting views on the issue, views that Stoppard juxtaposes with one another within the comic framework of the play. Henry Carr, a genuine historical figure, is somewhat overshadowed by the notoriety of the men around him and his opinions are often overlooked. Yet the debate occurs within Carr's memory, and the play makes it clear that the events presented are highly coloured by Carr's remembering them. Indeed, Carr's introductions of each of the other three participants in the debate emphasise their status as products of his memory: 'James Joyce As I Knew Him', 'Lenin As I Knew Him', '">Memories of Dada by a Consular Friend of the Famous in Old Zurich: A Sketch">'. Furthermore, Carr takes his own position on the aesthetic-political issue, a position that he defends against the opposing views of Tzara, Joyce and Lenin. By contrast, Joyce and Lenin never argue directly with each other in the play. Carr, then, provides a controlling perspective and actively participates in the debate embodied in ">Travesties". A careful examination of the scenes in which Carr's views conflict with those of Tzara, Joyce and Lenin will reveal both Carr's centrality to
The emotional emptiness in "Araby" by James Joyce, "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck which uses antagonism, mood and atmosphere in "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe
Daniel Koett English 10 Mrs. Galang 7/05/05 Uses of Setting Setting is the time and place of the actions in the story. However, setting can be more than this. Setting maybe used as an antagonist, a reflection of an emotional emptiness, the source of atmosphere/mood, a metaphor for human life and a reinforcement of the story's conflict. In James Joyce's short story, "Araby", setting reflects the emotional emptiness of the boy narrator. The imagery of the opening paragraph like in this sentence, "North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quite street except at the hour when the Christian Brother's School set the boy's free. An uninhabited house of two stories stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbors in a square ground" describes not only the loneliness between the neighbors but in particular the emotional emptiness of the boy. Besides that, it shows a hidden symbol that love can or is blind. This blind love is exactly what the boy is going through from the stage of childhood to adulthood. Another illustration which shows that the boy is trapped by his own emotional feelings is described in this sentence: "One evening I went into the back drawing-room in which the priest had died. It was a dark rainy-evening and there was no sound in the house. Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth, the fine incessant needles of water playing
Symbolization of Dublin Life.
Symbolization of Dublin Life "Dubliners," a collection of 15 short stories, is Joyce's second work. In these stories he deals progressively with crucial episodes of childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, maturity, family life, and public life in Dublin. From the short stories in "Dubliners," it can be seen that there are similar symbolization of Dublin life appearing throughout each of the stories. We will look up what kind of symbolization of Dublin life was made and ultimately what Joyce intended to show us with this. Firstly, Dublin is a dull place to live. In "Eveline," a man from Belfast buys a field, which Eveline used to play in as a child, and builds houses on it. However, the houses he builds are unlike the "little brown houses," and they have "bright bricks with shining roofs." (20) The houses symbolize the dullness of Dublin whereas this man from Belfast is more "colorful" and "exciting," which is symbolized by the houses he builds. The boys in "An Encounter" want to escape their monotonous lives. By means of escaping, they read books about the "Wild West" and play games like "Cowboys and Indians." The summer holidays are approaching when the boys make up their minds to "break out of the weariness of school-life for one day at least." (9) The boys plan a "day's miching" to escape their dull lives and strict teachers. They go on an "adventure" across the Liffey
Comparison Essay "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" & "Paul's Case".
Comparison Essay "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" & "Paul's Case" By: Gregory Berrea 2025631 ENG 1120 A Dr. Linda Hauch November 27, 2002 In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and "Paul's Case," both main characters display similar qualities that lead them to encounters that inevitably destroy their innocence. Due to the ending of both teens lives one is able to come to the conclusion that their death was a result of no parental figure in their lives to instill morals and restrict freedom, there is a desire for romance at a young age, and a great deal of naivety in both teens. The striking similarities in the plot and characters of the two short stories "Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and "Paul's Case" show similarities in their negative conclusions. In "Paul's Case" the main character is living by his own morals. Paul's has decided for himself what is right and what is wrong. Paul was raised by his widowed father his whole life, "I happen to know that he was born in Colorado, only a few months before his mother died out there of a long illness" (Cather 537). Although the reader sees Paul's father as an honest man who is trying to better himself in this world through perseverance and hard work, Paul is trying to move up the echelons of society through stealing and lying. This is stated to the reader by Cather on page 548, "The
In my essay, I will be writing mainly about Keawe and Paul as they are the main characters in the stories; 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Rocking Horse Winner'.
'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Rocking Horse Winner' Introduction: In my essay, I will be writing mainly about Keawe and Paul as they are the main characters in the stories; 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Rocking Horse Winner'. I will be writing if the characters in either story are moral/immoral and what impression the reader got of them. I will also be writing about the moral standards of the characters and what happen to them at the end of the story. You should know that these two stories are fables although they do have a moral in the stories. Both of the stories are about greed, the love for money and evil. Also both of the main character's at he end of each story die at the end. The author of 'The Bottle Imp' is Robert Louis Stephenson and the author of 'The Rocking Horse Winner' is D.H Lawrence. I will also be writing about the message and overall moral of the stories the author's are trying to put across. Keawe: At the beginning of 'The Bottle Imp', Keawe had nothing but was in search of something. When he was in San Francisco, he got tricked into buying a bottle from an old man who claimed that the bottle had magical powers. He tests the bottle's powers and then shows it to his friend Lopaka. He then makes a wish for a house just like his uncle and cousin's and gets the house at the loss of his uncle and cousin's lives. After making the Imp appear before him, he then
Comparison and Contrast of the Main Characters in "A & P" and "Araby"
Caitlin Hargrove Professor Sterr English 2 November 2004 Comparison and Contrast of the Main Characters in "A & P" and "Araby" Mordecai Marcus defines an initiation story as one that shows "a young protagonist experiencing a significant change of knowledge about the world or himself...and this change must point or lead him toward an adult life" (1960). As seen in John Updike's "A & P" and James Joyce's "Araby," both of the main characters are confronted by situations that bring them to "thresholds of maturity and understanding." Marcus classifies initiation stories based upon one of three levels that a character passes through during their struggle towards wisdom and clarification. Although both characters from "A & P" and "Araby" make it to this passageway toward adulthood, Sammy from "A & P" passes farther through Marcus's levels of initiation than does the narrator of "Araby." Despite the narrator of "Araby's" progress, Sammy matures more after his initiation as he appreciates his struggle and lessons learned more than the character in "Araby" by accepting his fate and moving forward instead of dwelling over his circumstances and blaming others for his frustration. As Sammy grows-up in a quiet, suburban town in New England during the early 1960's, he takes on a bleak outlook of life as he becomes bored while serving his community as a cashier at the local A & P