James Joyce

filled with clear observation and description. One theme common in both stories is boredom. In Araby, The narrator begins with a description of his surroundings. The street is quiet with people who “gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces” (Joyce, 1914).The air at home is musty; the pages of the books he finds are curled and damp. These words signal dullness and decay. The lanes he plays in are muddy, and the cold bites his skin. His life is dark and colorless, something that must be…

Greater warmth in the heart rather than the home In the play A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen, Nora, the main character is the epitome of the oppressed women. During the time the play was written women were under the control of men. Ibsen uses the stove, an ordinary household item, as a tool for Nora to free herself from being restrained. Initially she uses the stove for comfort and stability, but as the play unfolds its symbol turns threatening. The first encounter between the stove…

Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun is told with true brilliance through her use of pendulum narration, moving from one character narration to the other. The three key narrators of her novel are divergent in every sense – adding to the richness of the books storytelling as their lives interweave through the use of an extradiegetic narration. Ugwu takes us through the life and experiences of an adolescent houseboy coming of age. Olanna shows us the world of a well-educated and privileged woman…

Literature has the amazing ability to convey a culture in different ways. Through the development of Irish culture, literature was able to follow closely behind. Leading this was Jonathan Swift and Antoine Raftery and even though both were widely known, there is a difference in their works and how they influenced authors like W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. In order to properly reflect on these differences it is necessary to first provide the respected backgrounds of these authors. To begin,…

Christina Linde, known as the “truth teller” from the novel A Doll’s House. works as the foil to Nora, the leading lady of the play. Christina highlights every weakness that Nora possesses just by being the polar opposite of her. Christina reflects Nora’s weaknesses throughout the novel with her humility, her need to work and care for someone, and especially through her desire to always speak the truth. Christine’s compassion becomes very recognizable as her character introduces herself within…

“A Doll's House” is a three-act play in prose written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879. A Doll House is about a women named Nora Helmer. She is the wife of Torvalds Helmer, and the mother of his children. 8 years before the play is set, Nora takes out loan for a trip to Italy to save her husband’s life. She forges her father’s signature, and she never tells her husband about the loan. She pretends that the loan was actually money given to her by her father. During the story, Nora struggles to hide what…

In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll’s House, several of the characters hide their true identity as well as events that have taken place throughout their life. It can be interpreted that the title holds significance in the actions of the characters. Many view a doll house as an imaginary world that is free to manipulation. Thus, the title can be considered to be a prelude to the deeper dilemmas within the play itself. In the play, one of the first characters that is introduced is Nora Helmer. The…

Ibsen's Own Doll House Whether it is done purposefully or unconsciously, writers often draw upon occurrences in their own lives as a way of explaining their viewpoint on real-life issues through the mask of fictional characters. Issues from an author's personal life commonly act as a base for the world in which his or her characters live. Themes such as wealth and separation are main themes in both Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll House and Ibsen's life itself. A Doll House, upon closer review,…

Arabella was observed on 4/5/18 by Kylynn Sanchez, the School Social Worker, during her 6th period English class. The class began with the students instructed to write down vocabulary terms off the board, as a way to prepare for the upcoming vocabulary quiz. Arabella arrived to class one minute late, dressed comfortably in sweatpants and a sweatshirt. She immediately took a smart tablet out of her backpack and engaged a discussion with a friend from across the room. Mr. Kingsley, Arabella’s…

earlier that had led to mass migration, starvation, and disease. Joyce incorporates this darkness, weariness, and resignation into his story about Eveline. In fact, Eveline's suffering under her abusive father into a metaphor for Ireland under colonialism, with the abusive Mr. Hill as a metaphor for the…