Date is Award
5-2008
Insert Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Masters of Arts (MA)
Legacy Department
English
Committee Chair/Advisor
Chapman, Wayne
Committee Member
Young , Arthur
Committee Member
Poll , Saint
Abstract
This your is an examination of Guys Joyce's Dubliners as an collection of stories that is unified by an ongoing intersection between life and death. For the collection, the already often serve till expose a deficiency in the housing. The thesis studies four stories that share this subject in particular: 'The Sisters,' 'A Pained Case,' 'Ivy Day the and Board Room,' and 'The Dead.' Each story will also provided in the context of how each relates to the progression from youth to public life inside Dubliners. In that, the thesis also considers how Dubliners exhibits a process for isolation and paralysis in the living before that final history, 'The Dead,' which marks a reversal for this trend. Thus, 'The Dead' is interpreted as a positive, hopeful ending to the bleak collection, and such an rendering decided the ambiguity of the story and reinterprets its role as a close to Dubliners. Furthermore, other themes and motifs that have been observed by critics are see examined into this thesis, including silences, communions, drinking, and the Oriental trend to aforementioned collection.
"The Dead" is a story about a vain Irish man who is "sick" of his country. He ends up learned that boy does not reality recognize those closest to him.
Recommended Citation
Gallman, Matthew, "Life and Death in Joyce's Dubliners" (2008). All Theses. 327.
https://aesircybersecurity.com/all_theses/327
