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PresentDubliners by James Joyce

EvelineIntroduce

The Dead

Comparison

Eveline IntroductionTheme:• Struggle[Dilemma] between one’s

happiness and one’s responsibility

• Spiritual paralysis.• Love vs. Family.• Dream vs. Reality.• Action vs. Inactivity.

Character: Eveline: - sense of duty/ obedient/ paralysis

• “Everything changes. Now she was going to go away like the others, to leave her home.” (32)

• “Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.” (37)

Eveline IntroductionCharacters :

• Her father -- violent - her fear

• Her mother -- conservative - her duty

• Frank -- kind, open-hearted -- her unknown future

The Dead IntroductionTHEME :

I. The dead living vs. The living dead

A. Gabriel Conroy VS. Michael Furey(p.2267)

II. Irish (Dubliners’) attitude toward:

A. Recognition of identity--- Detachment

Most of Irish people did not recognize themselves as Irish but admire the culture of European. In “The Dead”, Gabriel represents the typical of Irish people.(P.2243 and 2248)

III. Gabriel’s epiphany (self-awareness)

A. Understanding of death

a.Physical death

b.Death of his egotism

B. Knowing his relationship with Gretta

The Dead Introduction Characters of “The Dead”:

• Gabriel Conroy was an egotist at the beginning of the story. After some serious assaults, Gabriel has an illumination about himself, his life and the relations with others. An epiphany is then achieved.

• Gretta- Gabriel’s wife/ loved countryside. • Miss Ivors- “was a frank-mannered talkative young lady, …” (P. 2247).

• Bartell D’Arcy- a tenor/ a key person of the story.

• Mr. Browne- a guest/ show off/ doesn’t want to be ignored. (P. 2245)

• Michael Furey- Gretta’s first lover and died when he was only seventeen. (P. 2266)

Characters of “The Dead”:• Lily- a careful housemaid• Aunt Kate/ Aunt Julia- mistresses of the party and Gabriel’s aunts.

• Mary Jane- also a mistress of the family and lives with her aunts.

AndThe Author

James Joyce(1882-1941)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce

James Joyce Introduction• James Joyce was born

in Dublin, on February 2, 1882.•Early age, Joyce regarded himself as a rebel.•Joyce’s early inspirations from the works of Henrik Ibsen, St.Thomas Aquinas and W.B. Yeats.•In 1904, he fell in love with Nora Barnacle. •Joyce died in Zurich on January 13, 1941.

James Joyce’s Work

http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/

• Stephen Hero (written 1904-6: precursor to the Portrait, published 1944)

• Chamber Music (1907 poems)

• Dubliners (1914) • Exiles (1915 play) • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

• Ulysses (1922) • Pomes Penyeach (1927 poems)

• Finnegans Wake (1939)

A new statue of James Joyce, an honorary citizen of Trieste, was unveiled on Oct 19, 2004.

A bust of James Joyce in St. Stephen's Green in Dublin ↓

←James Joyce Grave, Fluntern Cemetery

http://www.meganobeirne.com/james-joyce-pictures.htm

http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/home/

Nora BarnacleJames Joyce 1904

Dubliners Introduction

• Joyce’s intention: the moral history of his country.

• Dublin: center of paralysis

• Themes: death, disease and paralysis.

• James Joyce tried to describe paralysis of indifferent public in the four aspects:

1. childhood: The Sisters, An Encounter

and Araby. 2. adolescence: Eveline,

After the Race, Two Gallants and The Boarding House.

3. maturity: A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay and A Painful Case.

4. public life: Ivy Day in the Committee Room, A Mother and Grace

5. Epilogue : The Dead

-- A collection of 15 short stories.

 -- The process of a person’s growth

- children the old

- individual social life

- dream disappointment, despair

Dubliners’ Structure

Eveline

And NowLet’s Compare

The Dead

Similarity

The Similarity• Both Eveline and Gabriel are trapped behind windows,

- wish for their real escapes.

• The Tragic Happiness as a part of Gretta’s life will certainly be a part of Eveline’s maturity. • Eveline and Gretta had an opportunity to make different life but they do not or can not take it.• Both stories have same The death that is majority relate with prohibit of love. The death of Gretta’s first love and Eveline’s mother.

The Symbol of Nature•Eveline : The Sea.

Sea/ for Eveline water as the practical method of escape and renovation ; also means the possibilities of a new life (P.35, the last line). But she is afraid to face her unknown fate. •The Dead : The

Snow.The snow / an upcoming change in Gabriel, a desire to get away from being dead in life. (P.2250 par. 1)•The Dead : The Falling Snow.The falling snow / heaven or death people will achieve in the end of life. “… the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." (P.2268 the last par.)

Eveline

And NowLet’s Compare

The Dead

Differences

The Differences

•The differences is, in Eveline story, Eveline still had a chance or still able to get her love, even in fact she chose her family. But In The Dead, Gretta could not able to get her love again, because of her first love was already die. Even if she regretted it and her love still alive, no one can make someone who die become alive again.

•The differences is if Eveline chose to keep trapped with her family even if she was unhappy. But Gabriel started to aware to his egotism when he recognize if he was not the only one perfect and loved by his wife.

The Conclusion• So, finally Dubliners is the collection of Joyce’s works when he wrote the story about people in Dublin, that’s why It able to make us as the readers able to imagine the common conflicts in there. Through Eveline and The Dead, we could know if the dead people can be still alive in the people’s heart who had been leave by them. Also, we could aware if there are some people who still alive but actually they’re die, but the dead of their feelings or their soul. And through the experience of the characters, we know that if actually someone even in their adolescence aware with something that really responsible and able to choose something that relate with their happiness.