James Joyce Essay

“A Doll’s House” is a play by Henrik Ibsen written in 1879. It’s a drama about a mother’s struggle with a bad lawyer who she struck a secret deal with to receive money for the sake of her husband’s health. However, she forged her father’s name on the bond a few days after her father had already passed away, and the story takes place years into her paying off this debt. The heart of the play is all a build to the climax of husband and wife where secrets come out and honesty is shared. It’s about…

Henrik Ibsen’s, A Doll’s House, acquaints an audience to characters that possess many unique traits which are a basis for the plot. Commonalities are seen between these character’s actions, even though their reasoning and motives may be different. These similarities go beyond just personality and actions, but delve into the underlying parallels that characters like Dr. Rank and Nora endow. One of the parallels that can be attributed to these two characters and happens to be a theme of this book…

On its least difficult level, "Araby" is a tale around a kid's first love. On a deeper level, then again, it is an anecdote about the world in which he carries on a world unfriendly to goals and dreams. This deeper level is presented and created in a few scenes: the opening depiction of the kid's road, his home, his relationship to his close relative and uncle, the data about the minister and his tangibles, the kid's two excursions his strolls through Dublin shopping and his resulting ride to…

Walking Through Modernity There are often times when one’s observations of what surrounds him or her lead to conclusions about common sense and society standards . In “Among the School Children,” W.B.Yeats structures his poem as an argumentative piece criticising the social status of the Irish people at the time. To accomplish this, Yeats starts by building up a speaker that could convey this message . The speaker characterises himself as a “sixty-year-old smiling public man” but one can also…

Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger, who tells a story of a teenage boy undergoing a period of confusion, just like every teenager. Trying to handle the aspect of growing up and gaining the feeling of comfort and confidence with who he is and his personality. In The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger implies symbols to express Holden’s struggles with immaturity throughout his whole life. In his opinion everyone is phony and fake. Holden acquires symbols that help him with confidence, comfort…

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt is a compelling memoir that captures the author's life in the 30s. The book starts with his early childhood in Brooklyn, New York but the majority of the memoir is primarily set in Limerick, Ireland. The memoir details the McCourts struggles with poverty, sickness, outcasting and an alcoholic father. While the topics discussed in the book are heavy and at times quite dark, McCourt uses various writing strategies to keep the reader from getting too discouraged and…

Though the narrator’s primary focus in James Joyce’s “The Dead” is Gabriel Conroy and his thoughts and feelings, there is no doubt that there is a strong feminine presence throughout. Gabriel’s self-identity in “The Dead” depends on the presence of three women and without these women, Gabriel would experience no conflict and thus the storyline would be extremely different. His characterization is first revealed when he speaks to Lily, the caretaker’s daughter. She responds to the literal meaning…

In Henrik Ibsen’s play a doll house Nora Helmer commits both a moral and legal crime. When her husband was ill a doctor said that they should go on a vacation so he can heal. However, this trip to Italy is quite expensive and they did not have the funds to pay for it. Her husband Trovald, refused to take a loan out so ,Nora Took an illegal loan from Mr. Krogstad by forging her dead father signature three days after he died(1262). From a legal perspective this is fraud and she could have been…

Life in Plastic Someone once said, “A happy marriage is about three things: memories of togetherness, forgiveness of mistake, and a promise to never give up on each other.” In the play in A Doll’s House, the most significant cause that led to Nora Helmer’s decision to leave her family was because of lack of love in their marriage, she wasn’t treated right way. She thought he will defend her and sacrifice himself for her as he always said, but her husband’s reaction was too far from that. Nora…

The writer reveals a personal view of himself as a child and a unique way of seeing Araby. Therfore, arranging well, a particular description of the street the main character use to live on, with its oblique lighting. Comparing the opening paragraph’s tone to the end paragraph,”…was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood… “. Therefore Araby was generally content on his street, yet later an actually…