James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
It can be said that throughout his entire novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce does not believe that a lot of his revelations actually came from the spiritual realm, or at least to not be swayed by the divine, especially because being that he does not have any real connections to the Catholic Church, which was his religion as a child. On the other hand, using the sacred to label revelations that are considered to be sacred provided to Stephen Dedalus, James Joyce utilizes the inkling of "epiphany" ("act of given the impression of something" (1) to bring about new illumination to the protagonist of his novel which brings him further away from the cloth and as a result, nearer to his goal of turning into an artist. "The Joycean epiphany still reflected to….

James Joyce -- "A Mother"
hat was the social scene in Dublin at the time James Joyce wrote the Dubliners and in particular his iconic short story "A Mother" -- one of the most debated tales in the Dubliners? The emphasis in this paper is on the role of women portrayed by Joyce in "A Mother" -- in particular Mrs. Kearney, whose daughter Kathleen Kearney is given a strong boost in her education and music career thanks to her mother's persistence and ambition.

Numerous scholarly explanations have been put forward through the years to explain the motivation -- within the context of the social scene in Dublin -- the willful behavior of the story's protagonist, Mrs. Kearney. This paper takes the position that Joyce created Mrs. Kearney in the image of a 19th century heroine, Anne Devlin, for reasons that will be presented in full.

"A Mother" -- hat the Scholarly Critics Have….

James Joyce's The Dead
James Joyce develops strong female characters in his short story "The Dead" and uses them in contrast to the men. The primary contrast is that between Gretta and Gabriel, and while Gretta is described in feminine terms related to the image of the Blessed Virgin, Gabriel is described in the same terms, creating an interesting shift which carries through the story and brings out differing perspectives on male and female.

James Joyce was born in 1882 in Dublin, Ireland and died in 1941 in Zurich, Switzerland. He is noted as one of the most prominent writers of the twentieth century, noted especially for his experiments in language and literary structure and his contributions to the modern novel. His parents were middle-class, and he was educated by Jesuits. Both elements feature in his works, notably in the short stories that make up The Dubliners, the book which is now….

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In Two Gallants, the "fine tart" (p. 58) of a woman that Corley picked up is likely a prostitute or at least a woman; or, as Jackson points out on page 43, a woman "...in low milieux" (or, she could be "an attractive girlfriend" and be know as "free with her favours"). This woman may have been an easy sexual mark, but she was more than that for Corley; she brought him cigars and cigarettes to go along with the sex; she paid "the tram out and back" (p. 60), so she was a "sugar momma" as well as being able to bring a good evening's pleasure to a man that nobody really knew very well. He doesn't even tell his/her name; he speaks without listening to what others are saying. He's obviously an ego case, totally into his own pleasure and damn the rest of the crowd. "She's a….

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Thus Joyce suggests that conventional national tales of origin, and national borders have become further and further collapsed in modernity. So long as people can envision a common, even familial bond between the two characters on a level beyond the confines of what is particular, local, national and religious, a connection between two random humans can exist and begin as quickly as a conversation. An estranged Irish man and a Jewish man can be allied, even father and son, in Joyce's Ulysses, just like the Irish Bloom loves his Penelope Molly, however sexually faithless he knows her to be, he still loves her. Bloom has also been unfaithful to Molly, fantasies about other women, and uses pornography for self-stimulation. Two men can talk about trees, dustbuckets, and Paris all in the same breath in the fluid context of modernity.

Thus, Joyce the narrator demonstrates Bloom to be….

James Joyce's "The Dead" and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Entrapment and escape are common themes uncovered in James Joyce's literature. Joyce often utilizes society as a symbol of entrapment for his characters, and through moments of realization, they often experience an epiphany that allows them to escape their paralysis. In his novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and his short story, "The Dead," Stephen and Gabriel are victims of entrapment. Each man undergoes a transformation through a moment of realization that changes his life. Through setting, language, and point-of-view, Joyce explores different concepts of entrapment and how they affect his characters.

In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen learns over the course of his life to escape, or fly toward his freedom. The significant moment for Stephen occurs late in the novel as he stands on the beach after….

James Joyce's Ulysses: Chapter One
The opening chapters of novels are always crucial components, not usually because they deal with major events, but because they introduce the elements that the remainder of the novel will build on. James Joyce's Ulysses is no exception to this. The first chapter introduces the major elements that the rest of the novel will build on by presenting material that raises questions. These questions then become the driving force for the remainder of the novel, where the reader seeks answers to them. The major elements introduced in the first chapter are the characters of Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, the major problem of Stephen Dedalus, and the setting. As well as this, the first chapter establishes the style of the novel, which is important because it sets the tone for the remainder of the novel and also contributes to establishing the themes of the novel. The….

However, even Homer's residents, according to Odysseus, were not truly happy -- one of the reasons Odysseus was so eager to escape their allure. For example, when Bloom greets McCoy, both express their unhappiness with their physical lives, despite the fact that Bloom has just been fantasizing about the Far East: "Just keeping alive, M'Coy said." Modern human beings are disconnected from a sense of purpose and joy, and seek refuge in tea, drink, and smoking, supplanting real pleasure with false pleasures, and forget what makes life meaningful. Significantly, the novel opens with an image of a young girl reproaching a boy for smoking, saying that it will stunt his growth. Pleasures can stunt one's emotional development, for the young and the old.
The lotus-eater episode, in Ulysses, rather than being deeply erotic, as one might assume to be the case in a chapter with the title of pleasure seekers,….

"Poor Aunt Julia! She, too, would soon be a shade with the shade of Patrick Morkan and his horse," realizes Gabriel. He also realizes that his wife and he are not getting any younger -- he observes her face is not the face Michael Furey died to see.
Rather than regain his belief in the value of romance, Gabriel has a deeper revelation: he comes to recognize how little he knows about the human character and the fact that he does not love his wife as deeply as Michael Furey: "Perhaps she had not told him all the story. He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover's eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to live. Generous tears filled Gabriel's eyes. He had never felt like that himself towards any woman,….

hile this is most definitely a bottom for Gabriel, a true moment of crisis, it is also a very real chance for enlightenment and change.
The empathy reflected in those lines shows a break in Gabriel's solipsism. hether this is a momentary or lasting change remains unclear, for the reader sees Gabriel at the instant of recognition with no indication in the narrative as to its effect on him. The reader is left to consider Gabriel's possible moral future, and, by extension that of the Irish society that is the real subject of the entire work (Fargnoli & Gillespie 54).

hat we have seen in Gabriel's journey in "The Dead" is that he is a man, a narcissist, whose preoccupation with the world around him has led his astray. He wasn't a man living in the world anymore, but rather, he was a dead man because he was not truly living….

Mulligan keenly notices features of Stephen's obsession when he mockingly calls him "O, shade of Kinch the elder! Japhet in search of father!" Partially, his argument for Shakespeare's autobiographical tendencies is seeded by his own frustration in his search for paternal links.
Out of this, Stephen's rejection of the Irish renaissance is significant because he wishes to judge himself against the backdrop of classical standards. "In our case, Stephen has 'entered into a competition' with Shakespeare by making himself a companion to the model of Shakespeare and placing himself, as much as he can by means of lecturing, next to the model of Shakespeare." So the contention that Shakespeare's plays are autobiographical, by being a particularly unique argument, if successful, would forever attach the name Dedalus to Shakespeare -- thus, his intellectual roots would be fundamentally defined to the external world. Notably, this would remain true regardless of Stephen's recognition….

elationships
Ulysses by James Joyce is written in epic style and thus is not easy to grasp in terms of its scope and meaning. The novel can be read in different contexts; sometimes it appears to be nothing more than a commentary on society and social evils. At others it reads like a commentary of various types of human relationships and yet at other, it seems to be experimenting with different and rather androgynous characterization. But Ulysses in its entirely is all of these things and more.

It is actually a brave and bold attempt to present relationships in unconventional light. We must understand the underneath all its comic sexual innuendoes and sometimes offensive actions, the novel is trying to convey a message which seeks to invent new social definitions of relationships of every kind. The story may at times appear tragic with Bloom aspiring to win her wife back from her….

If this is the case, then it seems unlikely that Dubliners would have nothing to do with Joyce's actual life while his other books would. Given this opinion, and the understanding that Joyce faced - in some way or another - many of the problems that the characters in Dubliners faced, it is almost impossible to say that Dubliners is not just a touch autobiographical in some ways. This is not meant to imply that Joyce used himself for characters in the book, but only that much of what he was thinking and feeling carried over to the feeling and tone of the book while it was being written.
Another good indication of this is the length of time that it took Joyce to write Dubliners, which would indicate that he likely struggled with the book to some degree. It seems as though most writers do struggle with books that….

Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man by James Joyce traces the development of Stephen Dedulas as a writer from infancy to young adulthood. While Joyce shows the maturation of Stephen Deduals, he is also painting a vivid image of Dublin, Ireland and Stephen Dedulas' world. One literary device that Joyce uses throughout his novel is the repetitious appearance of numerous images. Stephen's fascination with women, both real and imaginary, is prevalent from childhood and is used by Joyce as a common strain of imagery throughout the novel.
Stephen's main love interest in the novel is Emma Clere. Emma is a girl who has such an effect on Stephen's life that he relates many events of his life back to Emma. For instance, Stephen feels guilty for his involvement with prostitutes not because it is immoral, but because of what Emma would think of him if she found out.….

As Brivic points out, the labeling of females as hysterical is another means by which a patriarchal society genders certain behaviors. Behaviors related to emotionality are notably gendered, as males and females are socialized to react and communicate according to gender norms. Occasionally in Joycean narratives, discourse related to gender is overt, rather than covert. For instance, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen does not take offense at his father's calling him a "bitch" and instead mocks him: "He has a curious idea of genders if he thinks a bitch is masculine," (Chapter 5). Awareness of the futility of gender norms and gendered identities fuel Stephen Dedalus's character in both Ulysses and in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Feminist discourse is deliberately subversive in both James Joyce's Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Male characters are central….