Joyce Carol Oates

“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…

represented by the religious allusions to express what love means to him. The narrator is infatuated with his neighbor Mangan’s sister, and he idealizes her throughout the story: “Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance” (Joyce 454). He is overwhelmed and obsessed by her that he pictures her in places where a person would not normally even think of romance. Her physical descriptions, which illustrate that he wants her, help in understanding his sexual attraction…

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…

often speak of the ‘gab ton eolchaire,’ which translates into ‘the wave of longing’. The idea of longing for something that can never be attained is not only present in the ancient stories of Ireland, but also in modern Irish literature as well. James Joyce, in his collection of short stories Dubliners, brings the idea of ‘gob ton eolchaire’ into the 19th century. Characters in A Little Cloud and The Dead long to live elsewhere, but they remained trapped in Dublin, longing for life in another…

demonstrate development. It is this view of the artists as a type of moral guide, which drives Hardy 's remark about David 's strangeness. To modern readers whose ideas of the artist have been so radically changed by Joycean ideas he is indeed strange. For Joyce the kuntslerroman was the dominant category, artistic identity providing development, yet for Dickens – writing in an era where debates about the role and necessity of fiction given the providence of the Bible were common, the opposite…

Eveline, the title character, is greatly affected by feministic issues typical of its period. By exploring Eveline’s relationships with men, the society’s expectations of her, and her obligations toward her family, James Joyce not only focuses on the theme of escape, but also the moral history of his country. Eveline, a nineteen-year old, is much like the young women of Ireland in the early twentieth century. Having lost her mother and an older brother, Eveline is obligated to take up much of…

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…

Grant Richards did agree to publish it in 1914. Adaptations of Joyce’s works and stage biographies of the writer abound, making it difficult for a writer to distinguish his effort and to create an appeal that will extend beyond tourist audiences or Joyce aficionados. Gorman, former director of City Arts, and a compelling…

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…