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trochanter https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxxfYUb7hszvRHd0alRwME9IdjQ/view?usp=sharing Through the short story “The Dead,” James Joyce composes a story focusing on the epiphany of Gabriel Conroy. The author cleverly uses literary elements to create the image of Gabriel Conroy, an average Dubliner locked into a routined life, then towards the end of the story, the climax occurs as this epiphany awakens him from the dead. Through the structure of the story and literary elements including: symbolism, character, conflict, setting, and theme, the author develops …show more content…
This imagery shows how the paralysis that Dubliners cling to in their everyday mundane routines is not much different from anyone else. The colors James Joyce describes in the story also painted the canvas to symbolize the mundane boring routine lives of Dubliners. Colors such as the “dull, yellow light brooded over the houses and the river” and Gretta’s “shoes in a brown parcel tucked under one arm” reinforces the dull and lifeless life of a Dubliner. These symbols also played into the theme of insensibility and being unable to live life because of the blindness to these mundane routines. The theme was shown throughout the story as everyone who attended the party were “gathered together for a brief moment from the bustle and rush of our everyday routine.” The members who attend were still in their routine as everyone had expectations that were conceptualized prior to the dance, as stated “[i]t was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan’s annual dance.” This theme demonstratesd that …show more content…
In the end, Gabriel admits inwardly that, “the time had come to set out on his journey westward,” which could be translated as a resolution to work both towards his Irish heritage and his marriage, but the idea of westward may also indicate a death and rebirth, for the sun sets and the day dies in the West, so to awaken from the dead, one must first die. Joyce uses different narrating techniques like: direct speech, interior monologue, and varied use of language according to social class and education to further develop each character and notion that all are under
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxxfYUb7hszvSkNaWTdrQ2pHM0k/view?usp=sharing
trochanter https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxxfYUb7hszvRHd0alRwME9IdjQ/view?usp=sharing Through the short story “The Dead,” James Joyce composes a story focusing on the epiphany of Gabriel Conroy. The author cleverly uses literary elements to create the image of Gabriel Conroy, an average Dubliner locked into a routined life, then towards the end of the story, the climax occurs as this epiphany awakens him from the dead. Through the structure of the story and literary elements including: symbolism, character, conflict, setting, and theme, the author develops …show more content…
This imagery shows how the paralysis that Dubliners cling to in their everyday mundane routines is not much different from anyone else. The colors James Joyce describes in the story also painted the canvas to symbolize the mundane boring routine lives of Dubliners. Colors such as the “dull, yellow light brooded over the houses and the river” and Gretta’s “shoes in a brown parcel tucked under one arm” reinforces the dull and lifeless life of a Dubliner. These symbols also played into the theme of insensibility and being unable to live life because of the blindness to these mundane routines. The theme was shown throughout the story as everyone who attended the party were “gathered together for a brief moment from the bustle and rush of our everyday routine.” The members who attend were still in their routine as everyone had expectations that were conceptualized prior to the dance, as stated “[i]t was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan’s annual dance.” This theme demonstratesd that …show more content…
In the end, Gabriel admits inwardly that, “the time had come to set out on his journey westward,” which could be translated as a resolution to work both towards his Irish heritage and his marriage, but the idea of westward may also indicate a death and rebirth, for the sun sets and the day dies in the West, so to awaken from the dead, one must first die. Joyce uses different narrating techniques like: direct speech, interior monologue, and varied use of language according to social class and education to further develop each character and notion that all are under