Essays on Dubliners

Dubliners is a collection of short stories written by James Joyce in the 20th century. James was born in Dublin on February 1882. His short stories have many themes, for example, he introduces us to a major theme called paralysis which it means being powerless,…

Gabriel, The Dead’s protagonist denies his Irish heritage and wants to identify as British especially when Miss Ivors calls him a “West Briton”(188) which later evokes him to say, “I’m sick of my own country, sick of it!”(190). Throughout the story Gabriel mentions several British…

“Eveline” a short story in “Dubliners” by James Joyce published in 1914, and “A Doll’s House” is a play by Henrick Ibsen, published in 1879, two separate texts written by two different writers of two different countries, interestingly exhibit almost the same way of the…

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a post-colonial short story cycle that tells stories about life in Dublin at that time. The stories’ unity is shown “by several different themes and images” such as “religious images and ideas” (Murphy 97; Ghiselin, 39). One of those religious images…

James Joyce and the Epiphany: An Exploration of Religious and Moral Connotations James Joyce revolutionized literature and ushered in the era of modern fiction. Joyce became famous for his revolutionary use of stream of consciousness narrative along with his abstract snippets he used to represent…

The Seven Stages of Grief as Paralleled in Joyce’s Dubliners James Joyce, born in Dublin in 1882, spent most of his life abroad, specifically on the continent of Europe (Gay 194). Joyce firmly denounced almost every aspect of Dublin life, from politics to religion to…

Themes of Paralysis in “Eveline” and “Clay” from Dubliners by James Joyce As a high school student who has compulsory schooling and required classes there is sometimes a sense of being stuck that I have felt. This sense of being stuck is also known as…