Scarica Gabriel's epiphany, James Joyce e più Esercizi in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Exercises at page 256 1. The text is divided into two parts: • The first section goes from line 1 to line 33 - Gabriel wonders from the present to the past and the future • The second section goes from line 34 to the end - Gabriel becomes part of all beings 2. Visual analysis: • room - Word referring to the setting • - Present of the narration (simple past/past continuous) • - Past of the narration (past perfect) • - Future of the narration (conditional) • - External and realistic elements • - Symbols All these symbols are illusions to the Bible, the author combines them to symbolize the sacrifice of Michael for his love, by comparing it to Jesus’ sacrifice. - Gabriel - he is both the angel of death and the prince of the fire; - Michael - he is an archangel, in the New Testament is portrayed as the leader of heaven’s armies against Satan, and therefore he is considered the patron saint of soldiers in Christianity; - Snow - it may be a symbol of death, since it covers the living and the dead without difference. It is a symbol of hopeless solitude and incommunicability or of the isolation and alienation of the author in Dublin and Ireland, but at the same time it can also be considered as a symbol of purification and life, since it clears the world of all the negative images; - Journey Westword - it is a frase used to refer to death, traditionally “going west” means “dying” and, to the author himself, leaving Dublin and Ireland. For Gabriel, it means that his time has come. • …. - Moment of self-awareness Gabriel realizes that Michael is more important than him for Gretta. • falling - repetition The language is poetic, the author also used a device called “chiasmus”. 3. Questions: 1. After the party, thrown by Gabriel’s aunts, Gabriel and Gretta go to their hotel room. She falls asleep thinking about the song, that reminded her of Micheal, while Gabriel watches her sleeping and thinks about what she has just told him about Micheal. 2. The scene seems to lose a precise temporal connotation because Gabriel wanders from the present to the past and to the future. Everything that happens is in Gabriel’s mind and he goes from the present to the past, then goes back to the present and finally to the future. 3. In Gabriel’s thoughts can be found the conflicts between life and death, and present and past. Everything concerns Michael, and the fact that he died for Gretta’s love. 4. Gretta’s recalling Michael Furey caused Gabriel to realize that even if Michael is dead, he is more alive in Gretta’s heart that him.
