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    What does the story signify? James Joyce 's short story, A Painful Case, signifies the dramatic isolation inflicted on man by his own human nature, which leads to a life best described as an "an adventure-less tale". How does it signify this? A Painful Case signifies the woes of self-inflicted isolation through the characterization of the main character, Mr. Duffy. The short story opens by conversing Mr. Duffy 's choice to "live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen... he found

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    Gabriel's Epiphany in The Dead by James Joyce     Many people in society feel alienated from the world and separated from their fellow man while others may try to find meaning where none exists.  In James Joyce's "The Dead," Gabriel Conroy faces these problems and questions his own identity due to a series of internal attacks and external factors that lead him to an epiphany about his relation to the world; this epiphany grants him a new beginning.  The progression in Gabriel from one who

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    James Joyce, the author of both “Araby” and “The Dead,” exploits a sense of imagery throughout both short stories. “Araby” and “The Dead” both share and differ from each other in the ways the imagery is shown. The vivid imagery in “Araby” is applied to express feelings and expressions from one character to another. The main character, an unnamed boy, has an undying admiration for Mangan’s sister. James Joyce describes the boy’s obsession with Mangan’s sister in vast imagery. “The Dead” also includes

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    James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet in the early 20th century. Joyce was the writer of “Araby”. A stoty published in 1914, in which the writer preserves an episode of his life, more specific when he a young twelve years old boy. But was does the word “Araby” means? According to diccionaty.com, “Araby” is an archaic or poetic name for Arabia. In addition, the story is about a boy who falls in love with a woman, she is the sister of one of the boy’s classmates. The name of the woman is never

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    “Araby,” is a story of emotional passion carefully articulated by the author, James Joyce, to mark the end of childhood and the start of adolescence. It is told from the perspective of a young boy who is filled with lust for his friend, Mangan’s, sister. He lives in a cheerless town on a street hosting simply complacent families who own brown faced houses that stare vacantly into one another. The boy temporarily detaches himself from this gloomy atmosphere and dwells on the keeper of his affection

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    Introduction James Joyce (1882 - 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. In his early twenties he emigrated permanently to continental Europe, living in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. James Joyce is now known as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Even during his time, he was respected as one of the best writers of his generation. Still, his works were so experimental that he was

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    the Artist as a young man” by James Joyce we meet Stephen Dedalus. From there, we perceive the world exactly as Stephen perceives it. Through sounds, smells, and sensations we learn everything that Stephen is learning and many times in incredibly specific detail. Stephen's overly sensitive reactions and consistent use of imagery is proof to us that Stephen is "different" and views the world from an artist’s perspective. This uses of imagery and motifs by James Joyce is used to describe how Stephen

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    Gender and Politics in James Joyce’s “Dubliners” At the turn of the 20th century, a young Irish novelist, James Joyce, released his first collection of short stories on Irish identity and what it means to exist in Ireland. In some of his most well-known stories, you can see Joyce building a contrast between the men and the women in Irish society. One of his most well-known short stories, “The Dead” takes a very explicit approach to gender politics as well as the idea of identity and race

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    James Joyce has been regarded as a literary genius for the better half of a century, and perhaps his most popular and most widely debated piece is the last story of Dubliners, “The Dead.” The ending paragraph of the story is deemed one of the most beautiful endings in all of modern literature, and the story’s ultimate meaning can be hypothesized and criticized in discussion after discussion, making it a popular work among the ascribed literary canon in academia. The whole of Dubliners is meant to

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    Bria LeeAnn Coleman ENG 299 Dr. Mark Facknitz October 12, 2015 Epiphanies in James Joyce’s Dubliners Characters in Dubliners experience revelations in their every day lives which James Joyce called epiphanies. Merriam Webster defines an epiphany as “an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure.” While word epiphany has a religious connotation, these epiphanies characters in Dubliners experience do not bring new experiences and possibility of reform that epiphanies usually have. Joyce’s

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