James Joyce

Divergent Comparison between Nora and Mrs linde “The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.” ( Kedar Joshi). A Doll house is a play written by Henrik Ibsen. A major 19th-century Norwegian poet, playwright, and theatre director. Ibsen is the founder of Modernism in theatre. In A Doll House, Mrs Linde and Nora’s characters contradict each other. Nora and Mrs. Linde move in directly opposite paths over the course of the play. Mrs. Linde is an independent women without…

The famous short story “The Dead” published in 1907 in the book Dubliners by James Joyce represents the social, politic and economic aspects of Dublin in the pre-war period. This story that could seem unfilmable, was transformed into a 83 minutes movie by the director John Huston. The film follows meticulously the plot and enhances the themes of jealousy and intellectual pride through an Epiphany dinner in the Morkan's house. Many lines have been taken directly from the story. Joyce's…

Somber, cheerless, regressive; average personalities of rural Irish. A time passes on, the interests and traditions of people change. As a result of human behavioral evolution, culture in fact changes. Overtime, culture changes from one generation to the next. While some members within a culture adapt gracefully, others lag to adapt. Therefore, leading them to become deviants of society within that culture. In “Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics” author Nancy Scheper- Hughes describes the…

Ezra Pound eloquently highlights the overall impact Thomas MacDonagh had on Irish literature during his short life. Pound states that MacDonagh’s ‘loss is a loss to both Ireland and to literature, and it is a loss bound to be felt as his work becomes more widely known’. He was born in 1878 in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary to a father from Roscommon and a mother from Dublin, both school teachers. Both his family life and the influence of his parents are key to understanding the shape his life took…

Frances Gu 09.05.14 Stylistic uses of structure and language in “Act of Union” by Seamus Heaney to enhance a metaphorical relationship between Ireland and England A highly stylized element of Seamus Heaney’s poems is to never explicitly discuss political issues, but rather to allude to the past to understand the present. As a native from Northern Ireland, politics did, however, affect Heaney’s life inexorably as it did with many in the political and sectarian strife between Irish nationalists…

In A Doll’s House Ibsen uses the doll metaphor to develop the theme of entrapment and by extension to illuminate the social backdrop of the time period that gives rise to the many issues and conflicts between the characters in the play. Nora serves as a wife and mother, but not as an equal to Torvald; rather a majority of the protagonist’s stage time is spent as a doll: a weak obedient character with little individuality, her existence a compound of societal norms and the expectations of others,…

Matthew Vo IB HL English IV Johnson 23 October 2017 Analysis of Soap Suds In this short poem, a man is portrayed thinking back about a charming youth memory. After quickly remembering this experience he all of a sudden comes back to the present, apparently beset by what he recollects. In Soap Suds by MacNeice, he portrays the man's movement through a striking tactile ordeal of a youth memory to at last demonstrate that his adolescence is gone even with harsher substances of growing up. In…

In Ibsen’s “A Doll House,” the act of pretending to be someone else seems to be the name the game. The characters falsely portray their true selves so that others can like them in the public. The story exemplifies the everyday spirited trophy wife, Nora, to that of a self-empowering woman. To her husband Torvald, she is a loving wife. However, unbeknownst to him, her persona shifts to that of a resilient and liberated woman. The first impression of Nora is of a respectful and yet…

In, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Nora is the protagonist of the play. Nora is the wife of Torvald Helmer and a mother of three children. Throughout the play we come to see a woman who is very clever, but perceives her-self in a naïve way. Later in the play we come to see unexpected actions taken by Nora, which demonstrates her ambition and courage. Nora does not fill a parental role in her children’s life, but more as a friend than a mother. In the play, Nora’s role as a wife is to be a…

I decided to do my essay on Stephen Wiltshire. Stephen is a British Artist who has Autism. He is known for having an amazing memory where he can study a certain area for 10 minutes and make it into a hour painting and have every detail like the actual object or area. Stephen seems normal from the outside but he struggles with autism he struggles with verbally expressing himself. To overcome this with his painting. All paintest speak with their art, people will find meaning behind a photo or…