Two Gallants By James Joyce

In literature, the knowledge of the history behind an author's literature work gives people a better understanding of the story and the tone of the author behind it. In the story "Two Gallants" by James Joyce, he presented his city Dublin in no positive matter. He uses these two chivalrous men to recall Ireland's political scandal and poverty. Lenehan and Corley, characters of "Two Gallants" are products of that. You can compare the men's betraying maids to steal from their employers in Dublin dealing with exploited labor and crushing poverty. Interpreting history into your art allow viewers to understand the past, which could turn around and help us learn and give a better understanding. Creative individuals like James Joyce go and use past events and predicaments to find solutions to the new problems that we have already dealt with.

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A perfect example of history helping us interpret art is the many possible contributing factors to why James Joyce uses real street names in the story.
He does this partly to stress the story's accuracy to the life of Dubliners.
Getting the readers the feeling that Lenehan and Corley could have really walked these streets show that these events could happen, James also does this so that readers familiarize themselves with the city's geography. Lenehan and Corley live meaningless lives and have few prospects and goals for themselves, and nothing but easy money gives them hope. It was like comparing the normal Dublin people of James Joyce time to Lenehan and Corley walking around, living their meaningless life because of Dublin's corruption. Reconstructing the streets of Dublin within his own bodies of
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In the story, the irony is used to convey the readers the feeling of manipulation. The big example is the title itself "two gallants". The word gallant would not be what most people call the main characters. Lenehan and Corley's actions throughout this day make you lose any pity that you have for the men. Gallant means brave heroic and trustworthy but these thieves are far from it. It would have the reader to believe that these men live an honest life. However, honestly, they are crooked and take from others. Both men want different things from life but always come back to stealing. Throughout the story Lenehan wants to get away from Dublin, however ironically every time he turns a street corner something makes him want to stay like the "green peas and the orange ginger beer".

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Certainly in its relentless examination of the brutal, ugly conditions of the lives of lower-middle-class Dubliners and its compelling representation of the rhymes of Dublin street life. Lenehan's time alone gives Joyce a chance to hammer home the tawdriness of the men's existence. Lenehan's lessons in life have been hard and ugly. He cannot count on friends or women, and he believes his poverty will endure. This is Dublin for a large class of people, according to Joyce's vision. With little to count on or aim for, the pursuit of easy women and drink is the logical course of action.

Historical context is the facts and detail of an event in the past. An article was written by academic advisor Grace Flemming titled "The Importance Of Historical Context in Analysis and Interpretation" says, "in more technical terms historical context refers to the social, religious, economic, and political conditions that existed during a certain time and place".