Essays on Dubliners

In the initial four stories of Dubliners by James Joyce, the focal topic of the stories was the youthful protagonists’ unfolding consciousness of the paralysis of adulthood. The significance of the theme of paralysis used by Joyce in his writings were to express the fact that Joyce had accepted that the Irish society and culture...

Due to the epidemic of alienation, paralysis and/or social fragmentation in today’s world, James Joyce’s Dubliners raises issues and offer perspectives which are more relevant than ever. Discuss. In James Joyce’s collection of short stories, Dubliners, the issues of alienation, paralysis and social fragmentation do have significant impacts today, and the 15 short stories that...

 James Joyce was one of the most controversial writers of his time. He was often thought of as perverse through his writings, leading to one of his most well-known books “Ulysses” to be banned in some countries. While he may very well be a bit perverse or erotic in some of his writings they had...

In the late 12th century Ireland was conquered by Britain; the invasion was called the Norman Conquest and was undertaken by the Anglo-Normans which was the ruling class in England. Ireland, like many other nations that were taken over by imperialists often gets compared to other nations Britain occupied. Ireland has identified with the Catholic...

In the short story, The Dead from the novel Dubliners by James Joyce, readers are led through a bustling, yet uniform, dinner party by, who I identify as the protagonist, Gabriel Conroy. He is an intelligent, impersonal, “cold-air” solitary man who is continually found present in his thoughts, rather than mentally present in the majority...