The Dead By James Joyce Research Paper
خميس خلف محمد. م.م
3122 ) أيـلــول8( العــدد
جملة آداب الفراهيدي
Self-discovery in James Joyce 's
The Dead
Self-discovery in James Joyce 's
The Dead
خمــــــــــــــيس خلــــــــــــــف محمــــــــــــــد. م.م
قدـم االنكليـي/ كليـة التربيـة/جامعة تكريت
ن
ن
Abstract
"The Dead" is the last, longest and most famous story of
James Joyce 's Dubliners. This study deals with the processes of self-realization of Gabriel Conroy, the protagonist of this story, who is a pompous master of ceremonies at the Christmas party of his old aunts. A number of external factors, especially assaults and humiliations, are trying progressively to break down the walls of Gabriel 's circle of his own egotism. …show more content…
" (D: 187).)(
He has also married a beautiful girl of low education from the Galway the west of Ireland, the same town of Joyce 's wife,
Nora Barnacle. (Burgess: 43).
Of course "The Dead" is also "autobiographical" in the sense that Joyce based his characters on people he knew, his family, friends, and himself, …. Ellman believes that while Gretta is fairly obviously based on Nora Barnacle, and the Misses Morkan on Joyce 's own great aunts, the character of Gabriel is actually a composite of Joyce himself, his father John Joyce, and a friend named Constantine Curran, whose brother was a priest like Gabriel 's brother
Constantine .… The fact that Gabriel is only partially autobiographical can explain both Joyce 's sympathy for and detection of his character in "The
Dead." (quoted in Triggs:2).
The scene of this story starts with the annual Christmas party of the Misses Morkan (Kate and Julia Morkan) two elderly sisters and old music teachers who live with their spinster niece.
The highlight of the party centres on their married …show more content…
In fact, this incident also reflects Gabriel 's character which is not so far from the character of Mr. Duffy in
"A Painful Case", in the sense that both of them are proud and lack real empathy with others. "Mr. Duffy 's deadly sin is pride or, as Freud puts it, ego." (Tindall: Number: 59-15126). Hence, in
Lily 's answer one can think that Joyce wants to show a clear contrast, between the vain spirit of the young men nowadays and the fruitful one of the olds embodied in, Michael Furey, the sacrificed lover of Gretta. Jeffery Triggs also says that Lily 's answer is significant in the sense that it introduces "the real or imagined superiority of the past to the present, of the dead to the feeble living, who are all words." (Triggs:6).
The second miscommunication and assault on Gabriel 's arrogance is made by Miss Ivors, the Irish nationalist academic and colleague of Gabriel "a frank-mannered talkative young lady", (D: 135) who has tried to persuade him to join them going to Galway, an Islands off the west coast of Ireland, but Gabriel has made it plain that he has no intention to go there or of such a journey. Accordingly, she accuses him of being less than loyal
3122 ) أيـلــول8( العــدد
جملة آداب الفراهيدي
Self-discovery in James Joyce 's
The Dead
Self-discovery in James Joyce 's
The Dead
خمــــــــــــــيس خلــــــــــــــف محمــــــــــــــد. م.م
قدـم االنكليـي/ كليـة التربيـة/جامعة تكريت
ن
ن
Abstract
"The Dead" is the last, longest and most famous story of
James Joyce 's Dubliners. This study deals with the processes of self-realization of Gabriel Conroy, the protagonist of this story, who is a pompous master of ceremonies at the Christmas party of his old aunts. A number of external factors, especially assaults and humiliations, are trying progressively to break down the walls of Gabriel 's circle of his own egotism. …show more content…
" (D: 187).)(
He has also married a beautiful girl of low education from the Galway the west of Ireland, the same town of Joyce 's wife,
Nora Barnacle. (Burgess: 43).
Of course "The Dead" is also "autobiographical" in the sense that Joyce based his characters on people he knew, his family, friends, and himself, …. Ellman believes that while Gretta is fairly obviously based on Nora Barnacle, and the Misses Morkan on Joyce 's own great aunts, the character of Gabriel is actually a composite of Joyce himself, his father John Joyce, and a friend named Constantine Curran, whose brother was a priest like Gabriel 's brother
Constantine .… The fact that Gabriel is only partially autobiographical can explain both Joyce 's sympathy for and detection of his character in "The
Dead." (quoted in Triggs:2).
The scene of this story starts with the annual Christmas party of the Misses Morkan (Kate and Julia Morkan) two elderly sisters and old music teachers who live with their spinster niece.
The highlight of the party centres on their married …show more content…
In fact, this incident also reflects Gabriel 's character which is not so far from the character of Mr. Duffy in
"A Painful Case", in the sense that both of them are proud and lack real empathy with others. "Mr. Duffy 's deadly sin is pride or, as Freud puts it, ego." (Tindall: Number: 59-15126). Hence, in
Lily 's answer one can think that Joyce wants to show a clear contrast, between the vain spirit of the young men nowadays and the fruitful one of the olds embodied in, Michael Furey, the sacrificed lover of Gretta. Jeffery Triggs also says that Lily 's answer is significant in the sense that it introduces "the real or imagined superiority of the past to the present, of the dead to the feeble living, who are all words." (Triggs:6).
The second miscommunication and assault on Gabriel 's arrogance is made by Miss Ivors, the Irish nationalist academic and colleague of Gabriel "a frank-mannered talkative young lady", (D: 135) who has tried to persuade him to join them going to Galway, an Islands off the west coast of Ireland, but Gabriel has made it plain that he has no intention to go there or of such a journey. Accordingly, she accuses him of being less than loyal