In this scene, Stephen is experiencing a conflict because he wants to establish a schoolyard presence but he does not know exactly what to do or what to say. He struggles to find an answer - a correct answer. We read that his body "feels hot and con Continue Reading...
He realizes that this infatuation for Mangan's sister is an illusion, and simply a wistful idea that serves as escape from his discontentment: "I lingered before her stall, though I knew my stay was useless, to make my interest in her wares seem mor Continue Reading...
William James was a prominent psychologist and philosopher in the early 20th century. Presently, James' work is outdated, but only in the sense that Galileo's or Darwin's work is outdated. Both Darwin and Galileo were originators in their respective Continue Reading...
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The characters in Oates' story are so brilliantly crafted that critics and scholars have had created enormous volume of literature about those characters. Some critics have suggested that Arnold is the devil Continue Reading...
After the horseplay, he and his companion Mooney are left bereft of joy and "the sun went in behind some clouds and left us to our jaded thoughts and the crumbs of our provisions." (4) The boys soon encounter another man, who, like Father Butler, is Continue Reading...
Filtered Water James Joyce's autobiographical novel, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is a multi-layered story. The author uses many techniques to indicate his surroundings, his attitudes, his maturity and his development. From styles of writi Continue Reading...
The boys play in the neighborhood streets until their skin "glowed" (382) and their "shouts echoed in the silent street" (382). Here we see a glimpse of Ireland that is not fantastic or glamorous. It is just the kind of setting a young boy needs to Continue Reading...
Eveline" by James Joyce Leaving for an unfamiliar territory: Reinforcing Eveline's fear through setting in "Eveline" by James Joyce In the short story "Eveline," James Joyce presented a thought-provoking narrative of the life of Eveline, a woman w Continue Reading...
Quality of Life An Analysis of a Life Well Lived The world is in a constant flutter of change. In the past few decades alone such inventions as cellular phones and the Internet have drastically altered many lives. Globalization is indeed, global, a Continue Reading...
When death finally comes it comes as a respite for Aschenbach who is so far pushed by his infatuation with the young boy that he has no control over his conscious or subconscious behavior. He sheds his dignity completely when he decides to recapture Continue Reading...
Charles Fort's We do not Fear the Father and Louise Edrich's the Lady in the Pink Mustang, what are the metaphors, similes and allegories in these two poems? How do they enhance the meaning of the poem? A pink car signifies that she wants to be a g Continue Reading...
A shameful consciousness of his own person assailed him. He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a nervous, well-meaning sentimentalist, orating to vulgarians and idealising his own clownish lusts, the pitiable fatu Continue Reading...
James Joyce's "The Dead," the first impression of a joyful holiday gathering of well off friends and family gives the wrong impression about a group of people that are living a routine of unfulfilling lives. As "The Dead" begins with friendly conver Continue Reading...
O Brother, Where Art Thou? Homer in Hollywood: The Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? Could a Hollywood filmmaker adapt Homer's Odyssey for the screen in the same way that James Joyce did for the Modernist novel? The idea of a high-art film Continue Reading...
This puts her in the prison of love towards Michael despite him being dead. Therefore, the two stories indicate the aspect of how routine affects the characters lives. Moreover, there is a significant similarity in their use of language and writing Continue Reading...
Illusion and Reality in "Araby" In James Joyce's short story "Araby," written in 1905, but first published in 1914 in Dubliners (Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, p. 611) a young boy experiences his first sexual awakening, and finds hims Continue Reading...
For the first several years of one's life, their mother and father are their world. These first relationships occur at a time when the tiny human is learning the basic of their environment and how to respond to it. A child learns much of their early Continue Reading...
Mr. Duffy finds romance -- love, even -- but he is too unaware to realize what this could mean for him and for the woman he realizes he loves too late. Both Mr. Duffy and this would-be lover are isolated, caught in their own middle-aged loneliness t Continue Reading...
Virginia Woolf's a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man In his novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce employs symbols and motifs to illustrate Stephen's maturity and growth. Joyce brings to mind the myth of Icarus and Daedalus, Continue Reading...
Ignorance Bliss? A Comparison and Contrast of the Characters and Themes of Sandra Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street" and "Araby" by James Joyce Plot Summary Character Summary Ignorance, although comfortable is not bliss at all. Character Gen Continue Reading...
This is the case with Gabriel in "The Dead" as well. Throughout much of the action of the story, Gabriel appears at a loss as to who he is, which is directly related to how he is perceived. The first time in the story this is noticed is to the begi Continue Reading...
The boy has begun to understand something different about the nature of literature -- goodness is not the only standard by which to judge others, at least the goodness of the Church. The man, however, only smiled. I saw that he had great gaps in hi Continue Reading...
Sexual Conduct and Prostitution in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" James Joyce novel entitled, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" chronicles the life of Stephen Dedalus, as he struggles through the difficulty of the changes that he un Continue Reading...
Adolescence to Adulthood: Comparative Study of Stephen Dedalus from James Joyce's "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" to Felicitas Taylor from Mary Gordon's "The Company of Women" Stephen Dedalus, the hero in "Portrait of an Artist as a Young M Continue Reading...
English Litreture Responsibility, Obligation, Suffering and Sacrifice in James Joyce's Eveline Eveline, by James Joyce, tells the story of a young woman with an unhappy life due to the responsibilities placed on her by others, as well as those she Continue Reading...
reading is "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. This introduction to a different kind of novel is a new experience for me, because as I finished reading the novel, I felt disenchanted and unsure of the story's final chapter, and the way Dickens Continue Reading...
"I had never spoken to her," he admits (30). When finally he does he is at a loss for words. "When she addressed the first words to me I was so confused that I did not know what to answer," (31). He communicates better in a fantasy world, just as he Continue Reading...
women are confined in society as depicted in the stories by Steinback, Joyce and Oates. Stories set in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century often depict women as being confined to the norms of society even while they strugg Continue Reading...
Money: The adolescent perspective as depicted in the short stories of Joyce, Faulkner, and Cather The search for higher social status as a form of personal fulfillment and self-definition all mark the coming-of-age stories of James Joyce, William, Continue Reading...
In "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," Mitty escapes the reality of his manhood with daydreaming. He does this because his wife emasculates him. For Mitty, daydreams are better than dealing with a bothersome wife. Mitty is a real man in his mind as h Continue Reading...
no thank you not in my house." The monologue is filled with Molly's real and imagined transgressions with men. "In a nonviolent parallel to Odysseus's battle with the suitors, Molly's thoughts revolve around Bloom's virtues and vices compared to th Continue Reading...
Q3. Explain the importance of the Fisher King in Modern Literature. The Fisher King is the wounded king that motivates Sir Galahad to find the Holy Grail to heal him and his people: the quest narrative is one of the most significant narratives in Continue Reading...
Youth: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man In James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the main character Stephen says that great art carries the qualities of Wholeness, Harmony, and Radiance. Yet Stephen is making this statement Continue Reading...
" In contrast to the freedom of the boat, Joyce juxtaposes the inside of the house with the dust that is mounting up, the familiar objects and the yellowing photograph. Although her brothers are not there physically with her, the letter to Harry say Continue Reading...
Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Point-of-View -- the author presents the perceptions of the villagers who live in isolation and are suddenly shaken by the arrival of someone so unlike them in stature and appearance. Fi Continue Reading...
Country" by Yasunari Kawabata "The Dead" by James Joyce and "Snow Country" by Yasunari Kawabata are literary works that uses the technique of imagery in depicting the occurrence of death. "The Dead" by Joyce is a short story that depicts life in Ir Continue Reading...
They still feel the pangs of territorial appropriation, the constraints of being a victim of the colonial project: "You are no a de writer," the Chief responds, "you are de espider, and we shoota de espiders in Mejico" (Lowry 371). Thus, the police Continue Reading...
Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1850. She didn't begin her writing career until after 1882, the year in which her husband, Oscar Chopin died (Toth). She spent several years publishing short stories, ba Continue Reading...
