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    Dubliners by James Joyce

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    paralysis In the opening story of James Joyce’s Dubliners we have The Sisters and the theme of religion and paralysis. Joyce looking at the relationship between Ireland and the Catholic Church and the state of paralysis between the two. The story tells the tale of a young unnamed boy and his relationship with an elderly catholic priest at the turn of the 20th century and the difficulties the young boy feels because of the priest’s death. The narrator of the story‚ the young boy who remains nameless

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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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    often leak into the mainstream literature of the time. James Joyce used his book Dubliners to express the rituals and cultural ceremonies of the time in Ireland. One major theme that is present in his book is death and how people act and treat death. In DublinersJoyce uses the stories “The Sisters”‚ “A Painful Case” and “The Dead” to show how death is viewed and treated within Irish Society. Throughout these stories‚ he shows how Dubliners act once people are gone‚ how it makes them question their

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    In his book of short stories‚ Dubliners‚ James Joyce employs narrative ellipsis and epiphanies to create a story that teaches us about life in Dublin during the time. Two stories that seem to express these ideas are “A Painful Case” and “Clay.” “A Painful Case” tells the story of a lonesome‚ middle-aged man‚ Mr. Duffy. When it comes to describing Mr. Duffy’s life Joyce is anything but ambiguous‚ for there is not much to be ambiguous about. Mr. Duffy is very simple. His apartment is relatively

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    Joyce’s Dubliners serve as a microcosm of his perception of Dublin’s atmosphere and social state at the time. Joyce’s perceptions of the city are shown through the fictional characters he writes about and their accounts of failure‚ isolation‚ and disconnect living in Dublin. It is interesting that all of these stories feature some sense of absence‚ however specific or abstract. This notion of incompleteness allows us to resonate emotionally with the characters at the discretion of Joyce‚ however

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    Life’s Inevitable Routines In Dubliners‚ James Joyce uses fictional stories to depict the society of Ireland during the early 1900s. During this time in Ireland‚ attitudes of the Irish were extremely negative and the society was regressing. Joyce uses these characters to illustrate not only the faults of the Irish people‚ but of all people. He is able to achieve this through the use of several different literary themes‚ which are used to show the humanity of the people in Ireland. The theme of

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    Epiphany-Dubliners

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    "Epiphany" refers to a showing-forth‚ a manifestation. For Joyce‚ however‚ it means a sudden revelation of the ¡°whatness of a thing¡±. Joyce’s tales about Dublin portray impotence‚ frustration and death. Their meaning is provided not so much by plot but by the epiphanies. Aiming either to illustrate an instant of self-realization in the characters themselves‚ or to raise the trivial existence of his characters to a level of conscious significance for the reader. The figures inside the story whom

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    Paralysis in Dubliners

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    determine his/her future. Some stories in “Dubliners” use the character’s history as a way of defining their actions. An example of this would be the story “Eveline.” Eveline’s story is about a girl stuck in Dublin with an okay life‚ but when the chance to escape occurs she doesn’t leave. The paralysis shown at the end of this story reflects back to Eveline’s history. Eveline has been in Dublin her whole life‚ so she is ignorant to anything that is outside of Dublin. When the chance arises for Eveline

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    Realism in Joyce's Dubliners

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    William Buttlar ENG 200 9/28/12 Style and Substance: An examination of Joyces unique form of Realism There are not many individual who can claim to have completely redelevoped a style of writing‚ but James Joyce was not like most individuals. As an introverted yet observant youth‚ Joyce formed a highly progressive (while unpatriotic) view of his hometown of Dublin (Levin‚ 11). When considering that “[the] history of the realistic novel shows that fiction tends toward autobiography” (Levine

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    Peter de Vooged`s article on “Dubliners” Peter de Voogd concentrates in his article on the possibilities of visualisation in a reading of the text of “Dubliners”. Different visualizations of reading can be observed‚ when film directors cast the actors for a character who can be imagined totally different by another reader of the script. De Voogd mentions the James Joyce was aware of these visual aspects and manipulated his readers` visualisations. On reason for this is his interest in the scenic

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