英美文学欣赏资料-dubliners

1、Dubliners都柏林人by James Joyce,Group members： 张思琦 徐化朗 石磊 杨洁慧 杜婷婷,Biographical introduction,Irish novelist and poet . One of the most innovative novelists of the 20th century adolescent boys, middle-aged alcoholic, the governments small staff, university lecturer, laundry room of women, young businessma

2、n. Most characters are belong to lower class. Their common characteristic is dificiency in public obligation and private life.,Ex:Araby,Araby is one of three of the so-called childhood stories in Dubliners (the other two are The Sisters and An Encounter). A young boy falls in love with his neighbors

3、 sister. He spends his time watching her from his house or thinking about her. He and the girl finally talk, and she suggests that he visit a bazaar called Araby, which she cannot attend. The boy plans to go and purchase something for the girl, but he arrives late and buys nothing.,Epiphany,An epiph

4、any is a moment when the essence of a character is revealed , when all the forces that bear on his life converge, and we can, in that instant, understand him. Araby follows this pattern. The meaning is revealed in a young boys psychic journey from first love to despair and disappointment,Symbolism,C

5、entral Symbol - Church,two men counting money on a salver a symbol of the money lenders in the temple. He allows the pennies to fall in his pocket. The lights in the hall go out; his church is in darkness. He has discovered in his Church and in love (both traditional symbols of ineffably sacred love

6、liness) only a shoddy imitation of true beauty.,Point of View,Although James Joyces story Araby is told from the first per-son viewpoint of its young protagonist, we do not receive the impression that a boy tells the story. Instead, the narrator seems to be a man matured well beyond the experience o

7、f the story. The mature man reminiscences about his youthful hopes, desires, and frustrations.,Major Themes: Dubliners,Poverty and Class Differences: Colonization and Irish Politics: Defeat, Powerlessness, Imprisonment, and Paralysis: Longing for Escape Isolation:,The Stages of Life: Dubliners is ro

8、ughly organized into a framework chronicling a human life: we begin with younger protagonists, and then move forward into stories with increasingly aged men and women. Although this is a broad generalization, the stories also tend to increase in complexity. Araby, for example, is fairly simple and short . The Dead, the final tale of the collection, is nearly three times as long as the average story in Dubliners. Joyces portrait of Dublin life moves not only acro