Analyzing Joyce's Epiphanies: 'The Dead' & 'Yes I Said I Will...' from Dubliners & Ulysses, Tesine di Maturità di Inglese

Scarica Analyzing Joyce's Epiphanies: 'The Dead' & 'Yes I Said I Will...' from Dubliners & Ulysses e più Tesine di Maturità in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! The Dubliners “The Dead” The Dead is the most famous story in Dubliners also the longest, the richest, and the most emotional. Moreover it’s considered like the finest short stories in the English language. Last lines’ paragraph dealt about the after party when in the bedroom of the hotel, Gretta confessed to Gabriel of her first love, Michael Furey. At the beginning he is furious and jealous, but after listening to her story he realizes there isn’t claim on Gretta and he will never be her biggest lover. Later on she fells asleep, Gabriel becames calm. He knows that another man came first in Gretta’s life, however he feels not jealous, but sad and sorry because Michael once achieved an impulsive and involved, platonic love he has never known. This epiphany episode is one of the best illustrations though which joyce emphasizes Gabriel’s inner awakening that ends the story. He experiences an inward change that makes him examine his own life and human life in general. All of this represents an important turning point of the story indeed. This part of the scene clarifies the connection between the dead and the living. Joyce’s epiphany is a manifestation or revelation leading the protagonist to discover the constant routine of hope and passive approval which describe the portrait of general human condition, thanks to simple object or fact like in this work. revlation son? immediate but gredual well Joyce himself referred to “epiphanies” as a word with connotations of religious revelation and at the same Vi is also a moment o solitude an relletion o Ulysses Yes I said I will...Yes “Yes I said I will...Yes” contains the last part of the novel where joyce describe Molly’s feelings toward Bloom with her monologue centered more on Bloom and Stephen-Rudy than Boylan and other suitors. All the novel is inspired to the ancient Odyssey and also Molly represent the Penelope of the Irish Ulysses. Despite that, joyce's female protagonist has a chief difference in relationship with Penelope: she isn't faithful to her husband and their affair haven't the same passion and emotion of the ancient couple, by the way this can be considered the issue of modern families. In fact all the writing is an epic tale ironically played and set in nineties century. Molly’s true sexual desire becomes clear in the last part of the writing and it is linked with her wish for the relationship of the family. Readers can understand all her inner thoughts due to the stream of consciousness technique. The author used it without any limitation underlining the chaotic flow of human mind; there are in fact no third person narrator, free association, several memories and fantasies. He writes down all the thoughts coming first in someone’s mind before they are organized in a