Television has witnessed a revolutionary technological advancement especially in the last two decades. However‚ it was in early1980’s when audience truly experienced the change in the structure of the news programs due to technology. The famous writer Joyce Nelson suggests how the news program’s craving for the up-to-the-minute coverage and being present at every important events led to this technological revolution. In her article “TV News: A structure of Reassurance‚” Nelson analyses the idea of “presentness”
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Thesis In James Joyce’s short story Araby he is successful in creating an intense narrative. He does this in such a way that he enables the reader to feel what it is actually like to live in Dublin at the turn of the century when the Catholic Church had an enormous amount of authority over Dubliner’s. The reader is able to feel the narrators exhausting struggle to escape this influence of the Catholic Church by replacing it with a materialistic driven love for a girl.
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of the stories in Dubliners consists of a portrait in which Dublin contributes to the dehumanizing experience of modem life. The boy in the story "Araby" is intensely subject to the city’s dark‚ hopeless conformity‚ and his tragic yearning toward the exotic in the face of drab‚ ugly reality forms the center of the story. On its simplest level‚ "Araby" is a story about a boy’s first love. On a deeper level‚ however‚ it is a story about the world in which he lives a world inimical to ideals and dreams
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In “Araby‚” religion encompasses the magnitude of the narrator’s infatuation with Mangan’s sister through comparison and replacement. The Christian boy’s religious background serves a purpose of shaping the way to live a worthy life‚ but his infatuation for Mangan’s sister replaces his religion. A Christian is called to follow and live for the teachings of Jesus; however‚ Mangan’s sister becomes the narrator’s religious figure. The girl is already directly connected to Christianity as the sister
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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
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Araby: Dream and Reality Ahsan Habib James Joyce’s “Araby” deals mainly with a young boy’s psychic journey from first love to despair and disappointment and also with his discovery of the discrepancy between dream and reality. In the story‚ an unnamed boy who lives with his uncle and aunt in the midst of an unfavourable situation for love and affection falls in love with a girl. Finally‚ he realizes that love and life differ from dream. Throughout the story the boy
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Araby: How the Setting Reinforces the Theme and Characters Joel Lee The setting in "Araby" reinforces the theme and the characters by using imagery of light and darkness. The experiences of the boy in James Joyce’s "Araby" illustrate how people often expect more than ordinary reality can provide and then feel disillusioned and disappointed. The author uses dark and obscure references to make the boy’s reality of living in the gloomy town of Araby more vivid. He uses dark and gloomy references
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Joyce’s Juxtaposition of Catholicism and Aesthetics James Joyce was a prolific Irish writer who wrote about Ireland and the troubles the people of Ireland faced. According to the Volume Library Encyclopedia‚ with Ireland being about 94 % Roman Catholic‚ religion is a motif brought forth prominently in Joyce’s works. In Dubliners‚ his book of short stories as well as his supposed autobiography‚ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man‚ Joyce shows religious turmoil and indecision through his characters
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Eveline is not sympathetic character for three reasons. She chose not to go with frank to Buenos Ayres‚ she chose to stay in Ireland and continue with her unhappy life‚ and the ghost of her mother constantly haunted her because of the promise that she had made to her that after she died‚ she would take charge and take care of the house and family. The first reason why I think that Eveline is not a sympathetic character is because she did not go with frank to start the new life that she wanted. The
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In the short story “Araby” by James Joyce‚ adoration appears not only in religion but also in a young boy’s romantic fantasy toward an older girl. The setting of the story being Ireland brings the assumption forth that the narrator practices Catholicism. This idea furthers itself when “the space of the sky above us was the color ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns.” The personification of the feeble lamps lifting their lanterns towards the sky
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