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This paper analyzes the excessive drinking and its consequences of author James Joyce. It is concluded that his alcoholism was detrimental to his social life and physical health, rather than being simply charming, as author Brenda Maddox implies in her biography of Joyce's wife, Nora.

From the Paper
"James Joyce was a great writer and an alcoholic. How much the excessive drinking of Joyce and other notable authors such as Dylan Thomas, Ernest Hemingway and Charles Bukowski has led aspiring writers to the bottle in a vain effort to help their writing will never be known. While Brenda Maddox's account of Joyce's drinking problem makes it sometimes seem charming, she writes he was never at any time a belligerent drunk and that many who knew him found his drunkenness amusing. She also shows..."

Tags:alcoholism, author, literary, James Joyce

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The paper examines James Joyce's "Araby", the Joycean re-telling of the classic coming of age story, and describes how the narrator traverses the rocky and uncertain path between the romantic ideal of his imaginings and the stark, ugly reality of the world around him. The paper highlights how Joyce shows his readers, through symbol and metaphor and outright exposition, how easily it is for a beautiful romantic world to come crashing down in the face of the sometimes unfortunate reality of the world in which we all live.

From the Paper
"James Joyce's "Araby" is the Joycean re-telling of the classic coming of age story. In this story, the narrator traverses the rocky and uncertain path between the romantic ideal of his imaginings and the stark, ugly reality of the world around him. This is the point of his brief story, the purpose of his tale. Joyce shows his readers through symbol and metaphor and outright exposition how easily it is for a beautiful romantic world to come crashing down in the face of the sometimes unfortunate reality of the world in which we all live. Readers follow the revelations of an unnamed narrator in a bleak Irish..."

Tags:james, joyce, araby

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This paper studies James Joyce's life and works. It takes us through his youth and his changing mindset. It can be read from different perspectives including-- religious rebellion, sexual confusion, artistic freedom, political conviction and family influence. The paper details the story and basically summarizes it while analyzing its themes, techniques and characters.

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"One of the most intense water images was the first one. The water is dark and dirty and cold. Another student, Welles, whose name is suggestive of water, throws Stephen into a cesspool. "The cold slime of the ditch covered his whole body . . . " 1 as he struggled to pull himself out of the disgusting pit. He will recall this experience, many times throughout the novel. He remembers very clearly both the discomfort and the humiliation. "How cold and slimy the water had been," 2 he remembers. The water was dark and it was impossible to see below. Stephen had been terrified that one of the boys said that a rat was seen jumping out of the cesspool. Other references to water throughout Stephen's schooling are dungy and dismal such as the sound of dirty water running down a drain, the filthy hole of the bog water, or the dirty water that went down the hole and had made a sound like the word "suck," only louder.

Just like the pit, Stephen's psyche was deep and dark. He was just learning about himself and how he fit into the world. He was discovering the power of human sexuality and his fears about his own sexuality in the confines of a Jesuit school teaching that such impure thoughts would lead to eternal suffering. He was also confronting the essence of his spiritual beliefs and apparent hypocrisy within the priesthood. He was meeting head-on the reality of his religious beliefs at boarding school. "

Tags:filtered, water, James, Joyce, images, autobiography, youth

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This paper examines the main character Stephen Dedalus, in James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", struggle with sin and society. The paper describes the main character's childhood and religious upbringing, and later his emergence into independent adulthood. The author writes that after a battle with sin followed by a religious rebirth that he can find a level of peace within himself.

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"Stephen Dedalus, in the book "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce is forced throughout his life to deal with the issue of sin. Early in his childhood he is taught the basics of right and wrong by his parents. This matter becomes complicated and fearsome under the influence of the Catholic Church, and Stephen, despite his desire to be pious, begins to question it."

Tags:artist, dedalus, james, joyce, man, portrait, stephen, young, pious, catholic, church

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This paper takes a look at Maria, a character in the story "Clay" by James Joyce, who never actually wakes up to face the reality or realizes that her whole life has been based on false assumptions and lies.

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"In the Dubliners, James Joyce's short story "Clay" stands out as a piece that has as its main character an ignorant woman who is essentially blind to the world around her. While many of Joyce's characters are struck with life-changing epiphanies, Maria does not recognize the signs - that are predictors of her future - even when they are painfully obvious to the reader. Working at the Dublin by Lamplight laundry, Maria thinks of her position as being of the utmost importance when in reality she is nothing more than a common dishwasher. Although Maria's budget is very limited, she nevertheless thinks that she is an independent woman and can afford the same things as women her age who are actually married. Maria believes that other individuals respect her and admire her, even though those same individuals either mock her unassuming nature or fail to notice her all together. Maria considers Joe's family to be the closest thing she has to having her own family. Meanwhile, Joe, his wife and his children simply put up with Maria once a year as if she was an unpleasant burden. Throughout the story, Joyce presents comparison after comparison of how Maria views herself versus how others view her. While Maria sees her life and the world around her through rose-colored glasses, the reality is rarely accommodating of her expectations."

Tags:clay, james, joyce, maria, Dubliners, character, analysis, english, literature

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The writer posits that visiting the James Joyce Centre on North Great George's Street in Dublin is a memorable experience, for the exhibitions dedicated to the life and work of one of Ireland's greatest writers provide many insights into Joyce's personality, beliefs, and character traits, which are infused into his novels and short stories through his protagonists. The writer asserts that one of the most interesting aspects of this infusion is that it reveals the autobiographical nature of much of Joyce's fiction, for many of his protagonists are literary personifications of Joyce himself.

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"Visiting the James Joyce Centre on North Great George's Street in Dublin is a memorable experience, for the exhibitions dedicated to the life and work of one of Ireland's greatest writers provide many insights into Joyce's personality, beliefs, and character traits, which are infused into his novels and short stories through his protagonists. One of the most interesting aspects of this infusion is that it reveals the autobiographical nature of much of Joyce's fiction, for many of his..."

Tags:reflective, essay, joyce

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This paper looks at the collection of short stories by James Joyce "Dubliners". The paper focuses on the final story "The Dead" and its role as the culmination of many themes begun in other stories in the book. Specifically the book looks at the themes of parental abandonment, apostasy, lost love, financial failure, decay and finally death. These indicate Joyce's perceptions of the death of Ireland.

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"The collection of short stories by James Joyce called Dubliners draws a picture of life in that city in the early 20th century, and is descriptive not only of the people in specific, but also of the country as a whole. Joyce's pessimistic view of the state of the country at that time is made abundantly clear in the course of this collection of stories, which flow together so cohesively they might well be considered as one work. Dubliners concludes with "The Dead," also the longest story in the book with the largest and most complex cast of characters, and is the most highly symbolic of Joyce's perceptions of the state and fate of Ireland in the early 1900s."

Tags:joyce, dubliners, dead

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The paper discusses James Joyce's contribution to the art of the novel, his influence on the form of the novel and on other writers. The paper explains Joyce's innovative literary techniques and also examines the impact of the novel "Ulysses."

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"Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce, was the most influential novelist of the ?th Century bringing a new approach and sensibility to the art of the Western novel that has not been surpassed since the publication of "Ulysses." His technical innovations and use of language are largely responsible for the modern novel that represents a break with the traditional naturalistic novels of the ?th and ?th centuries of Henry Fielding, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert and Daniel Defoe among many others."

Tags:Joyce, Novel, Modern, Literary, Techniques, Language, Ulysses, Writers

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The paper explores "Dubliners," by James Joyce, and explains how it is a culmination of fifteen short stories that are a reflection of James Joyce's life in Dublin. The paper discusses that Joyce presents each story as a different piece of the puzzle that amounts to the reader obtaining Joyce's image of Dublin in the early 20th century. The paper also explores Joyce's style, including his use of personification and passionate descriptions, and the paper explains how that style helps the reader visualize and empathize with the characters. Additionally, the paper analyzes the narrator and Gabriel Conway in "Araby" and "The Dead", and explains that they are tired of their situation in Dublin and romanticize ways to escape because, in reality, they are stuck and paralyzed.

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"When observing the narrator in "Araby" and Gabriel Conway in "The Dead" it is evident that both characters attempt to escape from Ireland through their imagination. They are dissatisfied with what Ireland offers including the lack of a community, poor economic conditions, and political unrest. Even though the narrator and Gabriel attempt to escape, they are shot back down to reality and come to the realization that they are stuck in Ireland and the only bright spots are outside of the island."

Tags:Characters, imagination, community, reality

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This paper identifies the theme of politics within Dublin, the issue of gender, and the theme of a state of paralysis and epiphany as the primary themes in James Joyce's work "Eveline". The paper analyzes each theme in detail and presents examples of how Joyce expressed these themes in the story. The paper concludes that James Joyce does a wonderful job at leaving the reader in suspense at the end of most of his stories.

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"After reading Eveline and other stories by James Joyce, I have discovered many underlying themes. Some of these themes are gender issues, politics and paralysis. James Joyce writes about life in Dublin, and deals with issues of the time. Joyce has been known to evoke an epiphany at the end of his stories. Eveline is no different. Eveline moves thorough life under the command of her father and society, oppressed. She tries to live up to social norms and to keep her family together after her mother's death. She reaches a decision to leave, yet has a moment of paralysis and decides against it."

Tags:gender, politics, paralysis, epiphany, Dublin, Ireland