The Dubliners - Focusing on ' the Dead'
The Dubliners – Focusing on ‘ The Dead ‘
Good morning, today I will be talking about the story ‘ The Dead’ found in the book ‘ The Dubliners’ . In ‘ The Dead’ , there are recurring reference of snow , and I will be focusing on the significance and symbolism of the snow in the story. First off, we can already see the importance of snow even right at the beginning, at the title of the story.As we all know, snow only appears during winter, and winter, in the literature world, is the season of death, where everything is motionless and lifeless. So snow, it creates the whole winter atmosphere , giving the story already a negative light, connecting to the title ‘ The Dead’ , and bringing out one of the important themes of the story, which is life and death. In the story, a lot of negative imageries of death are put forward, such as _________________________________(quote)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
This reinforces the idea of death and puts forward the negative tone in the story. In ‘ The Dead’ there are many references of snow , the imagery of snow keeps appearing, it starts off with only a small patch (quote), till it slowly spreads and in the end , it became so big that it ends with ‘ snow covering the whole of Ireland’.
I think that the accumulation of snow has several symbolism and several meanings. The small patch of snow at the beginning represents the inner doubts and misunderstanding that Gabriel has always had for his wife , Gretta. .
Because it’s during the Christmas dinner time, after the meal did Gabriel find out about his wife Gretta’s past, about Gretta’s old love for Michael Furey. Although that man, Michael Furey’s dead already, his image insides Gretta, is still of this young energetic man, fiery
Good morning, today I will be talking about the story ‘ The Dead’ found in the book ‘ The Dubliners’ . In ‘ The Dead’ , there are recurring reference of snow , and I will be focusing on the significance and symbolism of the snow in the story. First off, we can already see the importance of snow even right at the beginning, at the title of the story.As we all know, snow only appears during winter, and winter, in the literature world, is the season of death, where everything is motionless and lifeless. So snow, it creates the whole winter atmosphere , giving the story already a negative light, connecting to the title ‘ The Dead’ , and bringing out one of the important themes of the story, which is life and death. In the story, a lot of negative imageries of death are put forward, such as _________________________________(quote)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
This reinforces the idea of death and puts forward the negative tone in the story. In ‘ The Dead’ there are many references of snow , the imagery of snow keeps appearing, it starts off with only a small patch (quote), till it slowly spreads and in the end , it became so big that it ends with ‘ snow covering the whole of Ireland’.
I think that the accumulation of snow has several symbolism and several meanings. The small patch of snow at the beginning represents the inner doubts and misunderstanding that Gabriel has always had for his wife , Gretta. .
Because it’s during the Christmas dinner time, after the meal did Gabriel find out about his wife Gretta’s past, about Gretta’s old love for Michael Furey. Although that man, Michael Furey’s dead already, his image insides Gretta, is still of this young energetic man, fiery