Scarica Eveline, James Joyce e più Esercizi in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Exercise 1.4 at page 252 “Paralysis” is a prevalent theme in Dubliners, it is present from the beginning to the end and it becomes gradually more powerful and universal throughout the stories. By “Paralysis” the author means the both physical and moral condition in which his characters live in. They accept their condition either because they don’t know about it or because they lack courage to go against it. “Escape” is the opposite of paralysis. Joyce’s Dubliners feel like they are chained to the city, and they try to go away but they never succeed in the escape. Exercise 2.2 at page 252 Epiphany is a technique employed by James Joyce in his work Dubliners. By “Epiphany” he meant the sudden spiritual manifestation caused by an insignificant gesture, a common object or an ordinary situation, which brings the characters to reveal their own inner truths. EVELINE at pages 253-255 Exercise 2 1. A. Eveline’s considerations of her life. 2. “She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue” (l. 1); “She looked around the room” (l. 17); “she was again in the close, dark room” (l. 88-89). 3. The interior of the room is characterized by dust, as the text states “the odour of dusty cretonne” (l. 2), and darkness, as it is stated the text “the dark room” (l. 89). 4. Eveline feels tired, as it is stated in the text “She was tired” (l. 2). 5. References to the lines: • Lines 3-10: The world outside her window makes her think about her childhood, when she used to play with her brothers, sisters and other children in a field, until a man from Belfast bought this field and built houses on it; • Lines 3-10, 40-45: In the past Eveline’s father used to kick the kids out of the field. Eveline’s and her brothers fear their father because he is a violent man. He had never gone for her, but latterly he began to threaten her too; • Lines 17-23: Eveline look around the room and she notices several familiar objects, which are all old and dusty. She also notices the picture of a priest, who is a school friend of her father, which over the years yellowed; • Lines 29-35: Eveline works in a store called “the Stores”. She thinks that her boss would be happy if she left the job. Her boss is also abusive; • Lines 36-37, 58-59: She has agreed to become Frank’s wife and leave her country, to go to Buenos Ayres; • Lines 66: Frank is Eveline’s boyfriend and he is a sailor; • Lines 57-65, 67: She remembers Frank’s courtship his being kind, open-hearted and manly. He has a house in Buenos Ayres. He was awfully fond of music and sang a little. He used to call her Poppens; • Lines 73-76: Eveline’s father did not accept the young man; • Lines 85-92: The sound of the organ reminds her of the night that her mother died, and how her father paid the organ-player to go away. • Lines 93-96: She sees her mother's life as a "life of commonplace sacrifices closing in final craziness" (l. 94). Her mother's last words (in Gaelic) were: "Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!”, but for Eveline these words were like a warn to escape from Dublin. • Lines 97: Eveline perceives an impulse of terror as her fate if she remains in Ireland. • Lines 97-98: Frank represents to her a rescue. 6. B. Eveline’s escape from her hometown. Exercise 3 1. B. Eveline’s moral failure. 2. Answer question: 1. Eveline is at the North Wall Station in Dublin and she is surrounded by a swaying crowd. 2. She is paralyzed and not able to get on board the ship. 3. Her relationship with Frank turns out to be a superficial relationship since she does not want to take risks to go with him and she gives him “no sign of love or farewell or recognition” (l. 121). 4. Eveline understands that she values more her home and her family, even though her place is dusty and dark and her father is abusive. So she comes to the conclusion that she doesn’t want to leave her reality. 5. The readers face Eveline’s paralysis and the fact that she did not succeed in escaping from Dublin. Exercise 4 1. The story is narrated in the third person and the point of view adopted is Eveline’s. 2. “He is in Melbourne now” (l. 25), “Miss Hill, don’t you see these ladies are waiting?” (l. 33), “Look lively, miss Hill, please” (l. 34), “I know these sailor chaps” (l. 75), “Damned Italians! Coming over here!” (l. 92), “Derevaun Seraun!” (l. 96), “Come!” (l. 112, 115), “Eveline! Evvy!” (l. 117). The author employs the technique of the free indirect speech. 3. The character of Eveline: 1. Joyce does not introduce Eveline in a traditional way, since there is no detailed description of her. Therefore the reader is obliged to put together the information that are presented through her thoughts to have an idea of who is Eveline. 2. She appears tired, because she is stuck in Dublin and she can’t get out of the city. 3. Past: “one time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other’s people children” (l. 5-6); “her father used often to to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick” (l. 10-11); “her mother was alive” (l. 13); “she had dusted once a week for so many years” (l. 17-18); and many others. Present: “she tried to weigh each side of the question” (l. 26-27); “in her home anyway she had shelter and food” (l. 27); “she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence” (l. 38-39); “he was usually fairly bad on Saturday night” (l. 49); and many more. Future: “now she was going to go away like the other, to leave her home” (l. 15-16); “she had to work hard, both in he house and at business” (l. 28-29); “miss Gavin would be glad” (l. 31); “she would be married” (l. 36-37); and many others. 4. Past: death; Present: dust, grey; Future: love, the sea. 5. Eveline is compared to “a helpless animal”, since she is passive and paralyzed. 6. Eveline becomes aware of the fact that she is not able to leave Dublin.