Joyce Appleby

James Joyce writes his stories about the family in a way that reflects the early twentieth-century family and its effects on an individual within a family. Family is the single most important human need for happiness in this life. The concept of family holds importance because it is through the influence of a family that an individual comes to know the world around him/her. The family is the vehicle in which most individuals first develop their character in life. James Joyce’s idea of the family…

Somber, cheerless, regressive; typical personalities of rural Irish. In“Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics”, Nancy Scheper- Hughes, discovered a great amount of revelations. From questioning mental illness to making connections in human behavior, Scheper- Hughes’ discoveries of rural Irish were controversial to say the least. While some of her discoveries were easy to fathom, others such as the similarities in personalities were not. Due to the fact that I was raised in a diverse and…

The film started with Antonio Ricci being offered a posting advertising bills job but cannot really have this job without having a bicycle. That being so, Maria Ricci, his wife, pawned their bed sheets in exchange for Antonio’s bicycle. Afterwards, Maria had to go visit someone. Antonio finds out that it is a fortune teller and had his fate predicted. On the first day of his work, his bicycle got stolen by a young man. He tries to catch the culprit, however, was unable to do so. He reported the…

W.B. Yeats’ Opinion of War W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. He wrote following the belief of “spiritus mundi”, the spirit of the universe and the collective unconscious or memory, which influences him to write around different mythologies, despite being a Christian. “Spiritus Mundi” leads to two of the works that reflect his opinion regarding war and conquest. Through these two works, “Leda and the Swan” and “The Second Coming,” Yeats’ opinion of war as a…

Zedina Martin Dr. Adair English 201 8 March 2018 When there is love anything is possible, not! The poem “The Passionate Shepherd to his love” is a pastoral and romantic poem by Christopher Marlowe that has a focus on the Shepherd’s love. The speaker of the poem is the Shepherd. The poem “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is a poem by Sir Walter Raleigh in response to Marlowe’s poem. A Nymph is the speaker of the poem. Raleigh’s poem is a direct mockery of Marlowe’s poem and all the claims and…

In Anton Chekhov's 1904 play The Cherry Orchard, a Russian family who is used to a life of riches begin to experience the hardships of poverty. Due to an extreme amount of carelessness and selfishness, the mother of the estate Lyubov Andreevna Ranvskaya loses the funds that have been allowing her to keep her family in a comfortable position financially. Throughout the play, Chekhov uses many items to represent symbolism, such as the cherry orchard itself to represent the golden age of…

coming of age is infatuated with a girl. To charm her, he wants to bring her back a present from a bazaar she wanted to attend. In “Araby” by James Joyce the protagonist learns through the experience of true love about the disappointments in life. The narrator starts the story off by describing the main characters neighborhood/living situation. James Joyce describes the setting on North Richmond Street, it's said to be “blind” with a two-story house, the other houses were described to "gazed…

“A Little Cloud,” James Joyce considers the ramifications of remaining sedentary in Dublin through his characters Little Chandler and Ignatius Gallaher. That Little Chandler and Gallaher seem so antithetical, despite their proximity and similar upbringings, invites the reader to question whether Joyce intends to insinuate that success is only possible outside of Dublin, and that ambition and Celtic nationalism are incongruous. Having left Ireland at twenty years old, Joyce apparently aligns…

of the Dubliners collection, which was eventually published in 1914. In total there were 15 short stories, written by James Joyce. The stories are "epiphanies". A word used by Joyce to describe the sudden consciousness of the soul of something. A boarding house is a place where lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for longer periods. James Joyce writes in the stream of consciousness. This means that he writes down the thoughts of the characters. The use of this…

“Everything Stuck to Him” Literary Analysis “Everything Stuck to Him” is a short story in which Raymond Carver, the author, presents a father telling his daughter a story of him and his wife when the daughter was a baby. The symbolism help expand the story in many ways, such having a change between the seasons; showing a symbolism of boyhood to manhood. Carver uses indirect characterizations to add to the development of the piece. Not only that, but the story is a frame story, a story within a…