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An Analysis of James Joyce's "Araby", 2002.
This paper looks at the short story "Araby" by James Joyce, analyzing the components that make it a great work.
1,244 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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According to the writer, ?Araby,? by James Joyce, is a story which contains two major contributing components to its overall success, the intrinsic factors found within the work of literature, and external factors found within the reader. The paper traces this theory through the paper, bringing samples to illustrate what is meant by intrinsic factors.
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"One other intrinsic quality of a story is whether or not it is able to give readers insights about society or about themselves. ?Araby? is an excellent example of a story capable of doing so. Through the basic plot and story line of ?Araby,? many readers may begin to see their own behavior in the action and narration of the young man, thus causing them to have new insights about themselves. Perhaps a reader identifies with the emotions of the narrator at the beginning of the story, and ultimately understands such feelings by the closing sentence. Insight may not be merely personal, but relating to society as well. Through reading the story by James Joyce, we come to realize that individuals validate their happiness and base their actions upon others, particularly those deeply desired. We also come to realize that much of the misery that society as a whole feels is, in some way, related to love. Reading ?Araby? by James Joyce allows us to experience some of these insights."
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James Joyce's "Araby" and John Updike's "A&P", 2000.
A discussion of the coming of age theme in the short stories ?Araby? by James Joyce and ?A&P? by John Updike.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper presents a short analysis of "Araby" and ?A&P? which details how Joyce and Updike use characters and images to show the conflicts that the main characters experience in their sudden entry into the adult world.
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"Coming of age stories show the events that guide the young person into acceptance of adulthood. James Joyce?s "Araby" and John Updike?s ?A&P? are good examples of the coming of age experience. They contain language, characters, and images that create a contrast between adulthood and teen years, and between the young men?s fantasies and the reality of the adult world. To be more specific, both stories present two different perspectives on the coming of age theme by showing the experiences of each of the characters."
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James Joyce's "Araby", 2000.
Looks at how "Araby" is a story of initiation into maturity.
1,110 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, $ 38.95
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This paper presents a short analysis of James Joyce's "Araby" which shows how Joyce uses contrasting characters and images to show the conflicts of the adolescent protagonist of the story and his sudden entry into the adult world.
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"A coming of age story deals with the growth and change of a young person into an adult. In some stories the growth of the character is conveyed in a coming of age flow of events, while in others a character experiences an epiphany that suddenly gives him or her great insight into the reality of life. Stories of maturation show the events that guide the young person into acceptance of adulthood. James Joyce?s "Araby" is a good example of the adolescent experience because it contains literary elements such as characterization, narrative point of view, language, and epiphany that create a contrast between adulthood and adolescence, and between the protagonist?s fantasies and the reality of the adult world."
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James Joyce's "Araby", 2000.
An analysis of the disappointments of the adolescent experience as portrayed in "Araby".
1,096 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, $ 38.95
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This paper presents a short analysis of "Araby" which explains how Joyce uses contrasting characters and images to show the conflicts faced by the adolescent protagonist of the story, and his sudden entry into the adult world.
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"A coming of age story deals with the growth and change of a young person into an adult. In some stories the growth of the character is conveyed in a coming of age flow of events, while in others a character experiences an epiphany that suddenly gives him or her great insight into the reality of life. Stories of maturation show the events that guide the young person into acceptance of adulthood. James Joyce?s "Araby" is a good example of the adolescent experience because it contains literary elements such as characterization, narrative point of view, language, and epiphany that create a contrast between adulthood and adolescence, and between the protagonist?s fantasies and the reality the adult world."
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James Joyce?s ?The Boarding House? and ?Araby?, 2002.
The writer looks at two of James Joyce?s short stories: ?The Boarding House,? featured as the seventh chapter in The Dubliners; and ?Araby?, the third chapter.
1,423 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper traces how Joyce tells the plight of the young boy in ?Araby?, raising the question: ?How much can man influence his environment, and how much is the reverse?? In discussing the problems faced by the main characters in ?The Boarding House?, the reader is asked ?Are people really in control of anything, or are we just slaves to our surroundings?? and ?Can man make any substantial changes in his world, or is that merely an exercise in futility??
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"The young boy in ?Araby? was faced with a challenge by some changes that were happening in his environment. The bazaar had come to his neighborhood, and he wanted to go to get something for his ?girlfriend?, who couldn?t be there herself. The challenge, which was actually a two-fold decision that he had to make, was Joyce?s way of illustrating an obvious point: ?Every person is faced with an important choice at some time in one?s life.? "
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The Conflicts of the Boy in James Joyce's Short Story "Araby", 2001.
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This paper is a brief explanation of the role of religion in the life of the main character from James Joyce?s short story, ?Araby.? It examines conflicts over what his religion is telling him is right and what his adolescent body is telling him is right.
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"Adolescence is a difficult stage of life on its own. Suddenly, a young person is forced to confront issues involving independence, maturity, and even more complicated, love. The boy in ?Araby? is no exception. He is the typical young boy fighting his way into manhood; only his journey is slightly more complicated as he is forced to take into consideration what the church has been teaching him for years. He is confused. Images of this girl he has become infatuated with are constantly with him, but so are his religious teachings."
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James Joyce, 2004.
A review of two of James Joyce's short stories, ?An Encounter? and ?Araby?.
974 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper discusses the structured encounters with the discursive nature of experience in James Joyce?s short stories, ?Araby? and ?An Encounter?. The paper examines the similarities and the differences in these two stories, both in the storyline and in the experiences of the protagonist. The paper explains that, despite the wildness these short stories chronicle, both are highly structured. Even though both stories are intensely sensual and put the protagonist through a dizzying array of experiences, both stories begin with order, proceed into different forms of disorder in play and fair-like environments, and finally culminate into a final, resolving order that leaves the adolescent protagonists wiser than they were before.
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"These life-changing events take the form of seeing individuals, either new types of people, or everyday people in ?new lights? In ?An Encounter,? the protagonist experiences an encounter with an individual the protagonist would not otherwise know within the daily circle and modalities of that person?s life. ?Araby? is a fair--and a fair is a carnival of different sights, experiences, smells, and various encounters, the last of which is a pure woman seen in disreputable circumstances. While at ?Araby,? the young boy sees a woman he has idealized, and is shocked to see her in a more common and base fashion than he envisioned. Thus, ?Araby? indicates how moments essentially out of time and routine can be life-transforming, through seasonal, temporal events like a fair. Fairs are discursive spaces, in that one can wander through them. Likewise, the aimless playing in the street of ?encountering? someone becomes an education in character, rather than a purposeless, aimless wandering through stimulating yet disconnected experiences and meetings."
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Joyce's "Araby", 2005.
This paper provides an analysis of the narrator in "Araby" by James Joyce.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This five page undergraduate paper examines the autobiographical nature of James Joyce's work and provides revealing insights into Joyce's own personality, beliefs, character, and perspectives of society. The writer discusses that reading this story is fascinating, for Joyce exposes his own deepest thoughts through the narrator and other characters and holds nothing back.
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""Araby" demonstrates the autobiographical nature of James Joyce's work and provides revealing insights into Joyce's own personality, beliefs, character, and perspectives of society. Reading this story is fascinating, for Joyce exposes his own deepest thoughts through the narrator and other characters and holds nothing back. Essentially, he is the narrator, and his intimate portrayals of the characters in "Araby" reveal his own soul, with all of its flaws and imperfections, but also with all of its nobility and intense longing to find meaning in life."
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James Joyce: Modernist Writer, 2005.
Essay focusing on the work, "Dubliners", and how James Joyce portrays himself as a modernist writer.
1,058 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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The essay highlights the ways in which James Joyce should be considered a modernist writer. The paper includes comments from many critics, including William York Tindel, and quotations from Shakespeare. Many modernist writing techniques are revealed that conventional writers would not have used. The use of symbolism is shown as well as examples that show Joyce using realism to portray himself as a modernist writer. The two central short stories used to convey Joyce as a modernist are 'Araby' and 'Two Gallants'. There are also examples taken from 'The Sisters'. The essay also demonstrates how Joyce uses religion to show Dublin in a state of paralysis, which is one of the central themes seen throughout the collection.
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"James Joyce's "Dubliners", a collection of short stories published in 1907, revolves around the everyday mundane lives of Dublin and its citizens. According to Joyce himself, his intention was to ?write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because the city seemed to be the centre of paralysis?. James Joyce is a modernist writer as he also does not conform to the traditional style of writing genre which conventional writers such as Jane Austen would have used at the time. Joyce believed that they modernists should ?As t?were hold the mirror up to nature? (hamlet, William Shakespeare). Joyce believed that a revelation of truth would free Dublin?s citizens from the paralysis of Dublin and their daily life?s. Joyce felt that due to the secularisation and the industrialisation of Dublin at the time the citizens were left in a state of paralysis with no escape. ?The stories portray Joyce?s feeling that Dublin is the epitome of paralysis and all of the citizens are victims?. (Levin 159)."
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James Joyce, 2002.
A biograohy of the author James Joyce.
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This paper is on the author "James Joyce". It compares the life and work of James Joyce. It includes brief introduction about his life, and work. It also includes how his life overseas formed the foundation for all of his work
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Joyce's "Araby" and Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", 2000.
Examines the theme of frustrated escape in Joyce's "Araby" and Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".
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This paper explains how Edgar Allan Poe and James Joyce use setting, characters, plot, and symbols in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Araby" to establish the theme of frustrated escape.
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"The setting and action of "The Tell-Tale Heart" emphasize frustrated escape by providing a context for the theme. Poe sets the story in a dark Gothic apartment where the action takes place after midnight. Darkness is a metaphor for evil and death; by placing the action at midnight, Poe provides an excellent psychological scenario for murder and madness. "
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Love in James Joyce's "Dubliners", 2002.
An examination of the role of love and the portrayal of Dublin, Ireland during the Irish Revival in James Joyce's "Dubliners".
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This paper discusses love in James Joyce's "Dubliners", through the analysis of selected stories: "Araby", "Eveline", "A Painful Case" and "The Dead". It looks at how his love stories reflect his attitude towards Dublin (harsh, not softened or sweetened) and for that reason they rarely have "happily ever after" type endings. The paper moves chronologically through the book and shows how the book also proceeds chronologically in terms of the age of characters (Joyce's idea) who steadily grow older story by story, to represent the different facets of a Dubliner's life.
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"?Araby? is one of Joyce?s stories of childhood, of childhood love. Even the setting is so hopelessly idealistic: ?The space of sky above us was the color of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed? (24). This boy, who has fallen in love with his friend Mangan?s sister, is completely desperate for her: He follows her in the shadows as though she were a ?summons to [his] foolish blood,? his ?heart leaped? at the very sight of her on the doorstep, his ?body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires? (25). When they finally talk to one another, she tells him she would like to go to the bazaar, but can?t."
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The Writing of James Joyce, 2004.
This paper discusses the writing of James Joyce as illustrated by the short story, ?The Dead?, and the novel, ?A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?.
1,660 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper explains that entrapment and escape are common themes uncovered in James Joyce?s literature. By utilizing society as a symbol of entrapment for his characters and through moments of realization, Joyce?s characters often experience an epiphany that allows them to escape their paralysis. The author points out that the setting in ?A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?, essential to understanding the character ?s entrapment, is the beach where Stephen?s epiphany takes place, revealing a stark contrast to the life he has known. The paper illustrates the powerful language that Joyce uses to bring an element of understanding to his stories, allowing the reader to visualize his characters.
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"In contrast, Stephen?s experiences at Clongowes can be identified as a series of defeats. For instance, he had ?tried to build a breakwater of order and elegance against the sordid tide of life without him and to dam up, by rules of conduct and active interest and new filial relations, the powerful recurrence of the tides within him? (98). Stephen is feeling bewildered by life at this point. As he attempts to make something of his life, his efforts seem fruitless. His scholastic endeavors seem to torment him more than anything does. In addition, he struggles with writing poetry. He is scorned for thinking Byron is a better poet than Tennyson. All of these scenes make Stephen feel as though he does not fit into his society."
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James Joyce's "Dubliners", 2007.
This paper is an extensive analysis of the narratives of paralysis and escape in James Joyce's collection of short stories "Dubliners".
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This paper explains that, while it is tempting to read James Joyce's "Dubliners" as a simple narrative description of 'a chapter of the moral history' of Ireland, with Dublin serving as 'the centre of paralysis', Joyce was actually concerned with suggesting a means of moving out of this paralysis. More specifically, the paper stresses that 'The Dead', the fifteenth and final story of "Dubliners", should be seen not as a mere description of paralysis but as a means of suggesting a way forward or out of this condition. The author relates that the word 'escape' appears in no less than four of the stories in this collection; therefore, this word itself can be seen to hold the key to how Joyce's "Dubliners" is to be read. The paper presents a chapter by chapter description and analysis of each short story.
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"At this early stage in Dubliners, however, these concepts are merely signified. The reader is, in other words, merely offered what Saussure would term 'signs' or words. In fact, that the significance of these key words is announced typographically, in italics, very quickly draws attention to the fact that it is words that we are dealing with here. Accordingly, when the reader is presented with these words, it is not the concepts underlying them that trouble the narrator of 'The Sisters,' but the words themselves and their fundamental sounds. The narrator has, he says, taken to saying the word 'paralysis' 'softly' to himself 'every night ... .
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James Joyce's "Ulysses", 2007.
This paper discusses James Joyce's "Ulysses", especially the chapter of the novel entitled 'Ithaca'.
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This paper explains the relationship of the two of the main protagonists in James Joyce's "Ulysses"---the young, lapsed Irish Catholic Stephen Dedalus and the older,lapsed Jew Leopold Bloom. The author points out that the story evolves through a kind of stream-of-consciousness narrative style; whereby, the reader receives an impressionist, fragmented sense of what life is like in a single day in Dublin. The paper suggests that, by using the protagonists Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus to suggest a modern Odysseus story, Joyce demonstrates the relevance of myth, even to modern life, albeit a myth that must be reconfigured to suit the modern era. The paper includes the quota passage.
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"When reflecting on such a passage excerpted from the section of the novel entitled "Ithaca," one is provoked to query why does a work set in Ireland locate it in a fictional Greek island of literary history? This suggests a parallel between the two men's journey through Ireland at the moment of the novel with Odysseus' search for home. Later in the passage, Leopold Bloom will find himself locked out of his home, as Odysseus in Homer's epic poem had to fight to regain his home. Bloom must also fight for the affections of his wife against rival suitors, not unlike the Homeric hero."
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