Comparing the Living Dead in James Joyce's The Dead and Dubliners

Dubliners by James Joyce compiles a variety of snapshots of life and culture; it captures people with very different situations and backgrounds all against the backdrop of early 20th century Dublin. Though the characters are not tethered to reality, the themes often relate directly to events in Joyce’s experience (Gray). The stories in totality do not follow one constant plot, but if one story can be said to represent the collection as a whole, it is certainly “The Dead.” The final story in the series

Comparing Dubliners and To the Lighthouse In Dubliners and To the Lighthouse, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf explore the depressing results of lives devoid of growth or meaning versus those who dare to live their lives in spite of all strife and adversity. Joyce and Woolf are both concerned with the meaninglessness of stagnant lives, the first operating in pre-WWI Ireland, the second in England during and after the war. "The Dead" and To the Lighthouse both reveal the despair of lives that

A Compare and Contrast of James Joyce's Short Stories Irish novelist and poet James Joyce is one of the most influential and important writers of the twentieth century. Although he is most notably known by his work Ulysses, his collection of short stories Dubliners, published in 1914, has also been successful in the literary world. Joyce’s homeland of Ireland, specifically her tumultuous period in the early twentieth century, is imbued heavily in Dubliners. The political atmosphere was uncertain

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a compilation of stories that all rely on character epiphanies in order to develop each story. These epiphanies change the tone of each story because each yields a negative change or reaction. In both “Araby” and “The Dead”, the characters realize or learn something about the world around them, which makes them second guess either themselves or the reason behind their actions. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales contains at least one tale that relies on an epiphany to help