Concetti Chiave
- James Joyce, an Irish writer, maintained a disillusioned detachment from Irish politics, contrasting with contemporaries like Yeats.
- Joyce's works often depict Ireland's suffocating environment, yet all are set in his homeland, highlighting his complex relationship with it.
- He pioneered new literary techniques, including creating new words and using incorrect punctuation, contributing to his unique narrative style.
- The "stream of consciousness" and "epiphany" are key narrative techniques employed by Joyce, allowing deep insight into characters' thoughts and sudden revelations.
- "The Dead" explores themes of individual and societal paralysis, inadequacy, and death, culminating in Gabriel's epiphany about his ignorance of his wife's past.
• The man described by Joyce's immobile, inept.
• The father claimed Parnell and when he left power has become an alcoholic.
• He flees from Ireland
• He feels suffocated in Ireland but all his works are set in the homeland
• Create a new language: use invented words and punctuation is used incorrectly
• He works in Trieste
• Interior monologue: in the third person and the narrator tells the thoughts of the character
• Stream of consciousness: monologue to the extreme, is how the character thinks.
• Epiphany: sudden revelation and it can be spontaneous or stimulated by something
• Dubliners are inept people, absolutely gray, like the streets of Dublin and the language that speaks to them, and to the tradition of the real story, symbolically describes his detachment from it.
The Dead
• Written in the realistic period but Joyce uses much internal monologue.
• Indirect interior monologue
• The character tells his thoughts across the narrator.
• Presence of the epiphany
• Fundamental themes: paralysis of the individual and society ', inadequacy, death.
• A major theme is death in fact the work ends with the word "dead". This sense of death is represented by the snow.
• At the end of the work we find the alliteration of the letters L and S. In addition, the words faintly falling ... falling faintly reproduce almost onomatopoeically the rustle of snow
The main characters are Gabriel and Greta who go to the Christmas party at the house of the aunts. During the party a song is played on the piano and Greta became immediately sad (Greta epiphany). Going back to the hotel he speaks and she is lost at this point reveals to her husband that the song had reminded Michael Furey, the boyfriend who died for her.
Here the epiphany of Gabriel ... that realizes not know his wife, not knowing her past. The final part is a long epiphany Gabriel while his wife sleeps.
Domande da interrogazione
- Qual è l'atteggiamento di James Joyce nei confronti della politica irlandese?
- Quali sono i temi fondamentali presenti in "The Dead"?
- Come viene rappresentata l'epifania nel racconto "The Dead"?
Joyce adotta un atteggiamento di distacco disilluso dalla politica irlandese, a differenza di Yeats.
I temi fondamentali includono la paralisi dell'individuo e della società, l'inadeguatezza e la morte, culminando nell'epifania di Gabriel alla fine della storia.
L'epifania è rappresentata attraverso una rivelazione improvvisa, come quella di Gabriel che realizza di non conoscere veramente sua moglie e il suo passato.
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