EVELINE – JAMES JOYCE
TITLE
Name of the main character About Eveline, her life ,her relationships – with her father, siblings and Frank Focus is about her suffering at the hands of her father and her decision to make about her life.
NARRATOR’S POINT OF VIEW
Third person omniscient point of view .Allows reader tp know both the internal development of the story in the mind of the protagonist sand external development Action is told with a rhythmical remembrance of the past to let the reader decide if the protagonist is doing the right or wrong thing.
SETTING
Dublin, Ireland where Eveline grows up.During the early twentieth century
THEMES
Different forms of death Death is figurative and literal People that aren’t in Eveline’s life is described as ‘they are no more’ Life before her mother’s life was better than now Also describes those who left Dublin and never asserts her emotional response to these happenings. People die when they leave Dublin Fears that if she leaves Dublin , she will bde considered dead 1 / 2
Fears in marriage it would be like death , she will lose her identity and will be no more Religion and keeping promises Reason for failing to escape is because of her Catholic religion Catholicism beliefs enforces her to be able to make sacrifices, promises and to live in guilt Sacrifices her own happiness in order to keep her promise which binds her to her late mother Nostalgia Eveline’s thoughts about what it means to be a ‘Dubliner’, make her think of liberating herself by leaving Dublin She feels that if she leaves , she will have to start a new life and lose her identity She is ready to sacrifice her life, which is a reality but doesn’t want to sacrifice her memories.Women and society Typical twentieth-century Dublin women who faces the majority of the problem that are usual to them Women had an inferior value to men.Led to the oppression of women by men. Women are controlled by men and had no power
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