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Eveline and The Deadfrom James Joyces
Dubliners

• Presented By
• Amanda Kang
• Eliza Young
• Rebecca Tsai
• Tina Hsu

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James Joyce (1882-1941)

• James Joyce was born in Dublin, on February 2,
  1882.
• Early age, Joyce regarded himself as a rebel.
• Joyces early inspirations from the works of
  Henrik Ibsen, St.Thomas Aquinas and W.B. Yeats.
• In 1904, he fell in love with Nora Barnacle.
• Joyce died in Zurich on January 13, 1941.

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
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James Joyces work

• Stephen Hero (written 1904-6 precursor to
  the Portrait, published 1944)
• Chamber Music (1907 poems)
• Dubliners (1914)
• Exiles (1915 play)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  (1916)
• Ulysses (1922)
• Pomes Penyeach (1927 poems)
• Finnegans Wake (1939)

http//www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/
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Dubliners

• Joyces intention the moral history of his
  country.
• Dublin center of paralysis
• Themes death, disease and paralysis.
• James Joyce tried to describe paralysis of
  indifferent public in the four aspects
• 1. childhood The Sisters, An Encounter
• and Araby.
• 2. adolescence Eveline, After the Race,
  Two Gallants and The Boarding House.
• 3. maturity A Little Cloud, Counterparts,
  Clay and A Painful Case.
• 4. public life Ivy Day in the Committee
  Room, A Mother and Grace
• 5. The Dead

http//www.jamesjoyce.ie/templates/text_contents.a
spx?page_id347
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James Joyce 1904
Nora Barnacle
http//www.jamesjoyce.ie/home/
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? James Joyce Grave, Fluntern Cemetery
http//www.meganobeirne.com/james-joyce-pictures.h
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A bust of James Joyce in St. Stephen's Green in
Dublin ?
A new statue of James Joyce, an honorary citizen
of Trieste, was unveiled on Oct 19, 2004.
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• Structure
• -- A collection of 15 short stories
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• -- The process of a persons growth
• - children ? the old
• - individual ? social life
• - dream ? disappointment, despair

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Eveline

• Theme
• Struggle between ones
• happiness and ones responsibility
• Spiritual paralysis
• Dream vs. Reality
• Action vs. Inactivity

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Eveline

• Character Eveline
• - sense of duty/ obedient/ paralysis
• Everything changes. Now she was going to go
  away like the others, to leave her home. (32)
• Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or
  recognition. (37)

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Eveline

• Characters
• - Her father -- violent - her fear
• - Her mother -- conservative - her duty
• Frank -- kind, open-hearted
• -- her unknown future

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Symbols in Eveline

• 1. The window
• The Prison of a poor family enclosing
  Eveline. (par. 1)
• 2. The fading streetlights
• The Hopelessness of her life (par. 1)

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Symbols in Eveline

• 3. The Dust, old house, / the old or lightless
  life . (par. 3)
• 4. The mothers words /the Past she cannot get
  rid of she cannot forget her mothers poor
  fate. (P.35 par.2)
• 5. drunk father, / the daily pain from her father
  annoys her. (P.33 par.2)
• 6. brothers and sisters and keeping the house /
  the responsibility she has to bear. (P.33 from
  the bottom, line 3)

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Symbols in Eveline

• 7. The death of her beloved people the deaths
  of her mother and her brother Ernest, and of a
  girlhood friend named Tizzie Dunn.
• The Fear-- she is afraid to accept the
  truth because it makes her feel isolated, lonely
  without their accompany. (par. 2)
• 8. The Death of herself
• he would drown her, She's too scared to
  leave Ireland, and thus sees her lover as a
  possible source of danger. (p. 34, the 1st new
  par.)

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Symbols in Eveline

• 9. Sea/
• water as the practical method of escape and
  rejuvenation, for Eveline also means the
  possibilities of a new life (P.35, the last
  line). But she is afraid to face her unknown
  fate.
• 10. Frank/
• The adult world of desire, longing,
  fulfillment, and heartbreak makes her afraid.

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Study Questions

1. What keeps Eveline from going with Frank?  Why is
   she like "a helpless animal" at the end?
2. Why is Eveline attracted to Frank?  What does she
   think he will save her from?  (Pay attention to
   the images of dust and darkness.)  Can he really
   save her?
3. Try to analyze the father-mother-daughter
   relationships in the story in Freudian terms.

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Themes of The Dead

• I. The dead living vs. The living dead
• A. Gabriel Conroy VS. Michael
  Furey(p.2267)
• B. The traditional customs VS. The guests
  negligence (p.2247)
• II. Irish (Dubliners) attitude toward
• A. Recognition of identity--- Detachment
• Most of Irish people did not recognize
  themselves as Irish but admire the culture of
  European. In The Dead, Gabriel represents the
  typical of Irish people.(P.2243 and 2248)

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• B. Relationships between people--- Insincerity
• Speaking words without genuineness (Pp. 2250,
  2257, 2243)
• Being careless on others talking (Pp. 2244,
  2249)
• Those evidences show that even though the
  guests participate the party, they usually only
  care about their own affairs. People often dont
  listen to others talking carefully. Sometimes,
  they will interrupt others talking or turn to
  precede other activity when people havent
  finished their words yet.

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• III. Gabriels epiphany (self-awareness)
• Understanding of death
• Physical death
• Death of his egotism
• Knowing his relationship with Gretta

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Characters of The Dead

• - Lily- a careful housemaid
• - Aunt Kate/ Aunt Julia- mistresses of the party
  and Gabriels aunts.
• - Mary Jane- also a mistress of the family and
  lives with her aunts.

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Characters of The Dead

• - Gretta- Gabriels wife/ loved countryside.
• - Miss Ivors- was a frank-mannered talkative
  young lady, (P. 2247)
• - Bartell DArcy- a tenor/ a key person of the
  story.
• - Mr. Browne- a guest/ show off/ doesnt want to
  be ignored. (P. 2245)
• - Michael Furey- Grettas first lover and died
  when he was only seventeen. (P. 2266)

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Characters of The Dead

• - Gabriel Conroy was an egotist at the beginning
  of the story.
• - After some serious assaults, Gabriel has an
  illumination about himself, his life and the
  relations with others. An epiphany is then
  achieved.

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Examples

• 1. Lilys bitter manner. (P2241)
• 2. Miss Ivors thought he was a West Briton!
  (P2249)
• 3. Gretta was thinking of her dead first lover.
  He just realized that she didnt put him at the
  center of her universe and he felt hurt.
• After these unexpected assaults, he finally has a
  realization and knows that he has no power to
  expect others actions or thoughts.

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Symbols of The Dead

• Lily
• 1) The funereal flower
• Dead heart ?? Living body
• 2) The Purity, White (Archangel Gabriel)
• pure as an angel ?? Morally impure, evil
  idea
• 3) During Easter lily blooms
• Rebirth of soul ??Corruption of soul

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Symbols of The Dead

• The imagery of The Dead are the operations of a
  series of symbolic antitheses as follows
• living  ?? dead
• east  ??   west  inside ??   outside  light
  ?? darkness
• warmth ??  cold
• present ?? pastspeech ?? music

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Symbols of The Dead

• The Snow
• 1. Gabriels fear of nature, his artificiality,
  and his un-Irish attitudes (P. 2243 in the
  middle)
• 2. The snow / an upcoming change in Gabriel, a
  desire to get away from being dead in life.
  (P.2250 par. 1)
• 3. The falling snow / heaven or death people
  will achieve in the end of life. the snow
  falling faintly through the universe and faintly
  falling like the descent of their last end, upon
  all the living and the dead." (P.2268 the last
  par.)

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Symbols of The Dead

• Correlation between the nature motifs death
  symbolism
• (special style)
• Snow, wind, or cold air play a significant role
  as a symbolic device relating to death.

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Works Cited

• Commentary James Joyces "The Dead" 29 Oct. 2005
  lthttp//www.msu.edu/weissjo1/310dComm2.htmlgt
• Dubliners Summary and Analysis at Owleyes. 29 Oct
  2005
• lthttp//owleyes.org/dubliners.htm?outlineyesgt.
  
• Dubliners by James Joyce. 29 Oct. 2005
• lthttp//education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsno
  tes/dubliners/47.htmlgt
• FJU English Department Literary Criticism
  Databank. 29 Oct 2005 lthttp//www.eng.fju.edu.tw/L
  iterary_Criticism/psychoanalysis/eg_3.htmgt.
• Gray, Wallace. Notes for James Joyce's "The
  Dead. 29 Oct. 2005 lthttp//www.mendele.com/WWD/WW
  Ddead.notes.htmlgt

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Works Cited

• Guide for "The Dead" (1914) by James Joyce
  (1882-1941). 28 Oct. 2005 lthttp//www.lingo.ntnu.n
  o/englitt/GDe.htmgt
• James Joyce. The Modern Word. 29 Oct 2005
• lthttp//www.themodernword.com/joyce/joyce_bi
  ography.htmlgt.
• Joyce, James. The Dead. Abrams, M. A. The
  Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed.
  Vol. 2. New York Norton, 2000. 2240-68.
• Lucking, David. Distant Music Symbolic
  Polarization in Joyces The Dead. 2001. 29 Oct.
  2005 lthttp//www.lucking.net/docs/lucking_music.ht
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• Mello, Patrick. Death Symbolism in James Joyce's
  "The Dead 2004. 29Oct. 2005
• lthttp//www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/vorschau/36481
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