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DUBLINERS (1914) - Coggle Diagram
DUBLINERS (1914)
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SETTING (PLACE)
DUBLIN
unlike Victorians, who had celebrated the developments of civilisation that came along with the rise of cities, Joyce was hostile to city life, finding that it degraded its citizens.
Dublin is a place where true feelings and compassion for others do not exist, where cruelty and selfishness lie just beyond the surface
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SETTING (TIME) : the opening stories deal with childhood and youth in Dublin ; the others advance in time and scope, concerning the middle years of characters and their social, political or religious affairs.
lack of action
the stories disclose human situations and moments of intensity and lead to a moral, social or spiritual revelation
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REALISM AND SYMBOLISM
the description of each story is realistic and extremely concise, with an abundance of external details
yet, realism is mixed with symbolism: external details generally have a deeper meaning
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colour symbolism
brown, grey, yellow are evocative of a pervading atmosphere of despair and paralysis
EPIPHANY
sudden spiritual rivelation caused by a trivial gesture, an external object or a banal situation, which reveals the character's inner truth
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LANGUAGE: direct, simple, concise, objective and neutral. Always adapted to the character according to their age, social class and role
RECURRING THEMES
the experience of death, love, disappointment and betrayal
exhaustion, weariness and alcohol abuse
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