Play Analysis : ' Play ' Dubliners '

I decided for my play review that I would go see Mary Poppins The Broadway Musical at the Jefferson Davis Fine Arts building this past weekend. The play is based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film; the original music was by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, the book written by Julian Fellowes, and the co-creator of the original was Cameron Mackintosh.

The novel is able to share how music is of great importance and is able to affect people’s moods and thoughts.

In the book “A Long Way Gone” music plays a role as a healer and a saviour.

James Joyce wrote Dubliners to portray Dublin at the turn of the early 20th century. In Dubliners, faith and reason are represented using dark images and symbols. James Joyce uses these symbols to show the negative side of Dublin. In “The Sisters,” “The Boarding House,” and “The Dead” dark is expressed in many ways. James Joyce uses the light and dark form of symbolism in his imagination to make his stories come to life.

From the creation of harmonies to singing to instruments, music has been an abstract form of human expression. Although an auditory collection of pitches and volumes, musicians can manipulate the same notes and bring them alive for their audiences. The true emotion and energy that’s felt in music really comes from the player as feelings are transferred to and through the listener. This interaction between performer and the house is catharsis, the complete release of strong repressed emotions. Thanks to the musician, music has the ability to grasp people and cause them to sense emotions and feelings without lyrics or images even being necessary. Although it’s believed we can only hear with our ears, something about music makes it emotionally if not physically tangible. In James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues,” a narrator certainly unaware of the impact of music invites himself to experience jazz for the first time. Baldwin uses the final scene of his story to argue that music has an effect on those who are able to experience it. Baldwin does this in one single moment by letting the fixed, practical minded, “well-intentioned” narrator experience catharsis from jazz as his growing, free-spirited brother communicates with him through jazz.

In literature, it is common for authors to apply different stylistic techniques in order to assist in providing the readers with a message. This idea is prominent in Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo, a novel which follows the story of three characters in the war-torn city of Sarajevo. Despite the fact that the characters never meet, they are each unified by a cellist and the song he plays for twenty-two days to honour the citizens who lost their lives while waiting in line for bread. Throughout the book, a recurring idea is that of hope for the future of Sarajevo, which is shown through the contrast of symbols from the beginning of the novel to the end, the cellist himself, and the adagio that the cellist plays. It is evident from the meaning created through objects and people that Galloway is able to use symbolism to enhance the idea that a city which once was destroyed can still be repaired.

“The Bible above most, perhaps above all, books that have been written, has temperament… It draws upon attention and patience. It disciplines negligence. It puts fine spurs to motive. … It is a liberal education to learn how to live with it.” (Phelps, E S.) p.467 In other words according to The Book of Revelation, it is an apocalypse or unveiling of the truth about life. (Mounce, Robert H.) For Tim Wynne-Jones, “music [is his] major inspiration” (Jenkins, Phil). This author prefers parts of a game where “…the crises are imminent, the dangers unseen, the triumphs partial but also enormous.” (Jenkins, Phil). Nevertheless, in Tim Wynne-Jones’ The Maestro, Burl goes through a very rough past but manages to change his outlook on life once beauty is revealed to him. It reveals the mysteries of music and the universe, as well as the complexities of Burl’s life which in turn provides the protagonist hope and inspiration. We see this through the child’s life which begins filled with struggle and abuse then follows even when he first encounters the piano. However, there is something about it that’s freeing and attracting Burl. Later on, he finds a sanctuary—a fantasy place where something is revealed to him. This Revelation brought inspiration which in turn has made him aware of affection in dealing with his emotions and feelings of hope, his behaviours related to his decisions, his affiliations by being optimistic through his relations with others and lastly, has made him wiser in

Soundtracks to films often strive to represent the themes and feeling of the film, and direct the audience towards particular emotions. A good soundtrack not only allows for the listener to understand the film better, but it should also bring to mind particular scenes, images, or characters. Soundtracks for books can do the same. In my creation of a soundtrack for Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, I strove to encompass Lauren’s journey throughout the novel and the various emotions that she experiences. Since Lauren is reflecting on her experiences, her journey becomes central to how the audience feels and experiences the emotional aspects of the book. The songs not only represent Lauren, but also the entire feel and theme of the text. The songs follow along with Lauren, with her despair, death, and the need for survival. As I scoured through song after song, I tried to connect each song choice with a particular moment in Lauren’s story and the hopelessness of a dystopian future Butler warns her audience about.

The role of music is important in the short story “Sonny’s Blue”, by James Baldwin. Sonny is the narrator younger brother and he has a dream of become Musician. When their parents passed away, the narrator felt like he is responsible for his younger brother and taking care of him. The narrator was a teacher and living a stable life. When the narrator was going home, he noticed that one of Sonny’s old friend, who is always dirty and high, was waiting for him in the school. But the narrator pretended like he hates Sonny’s friend who despite his problem. Also, he told the narrator how Sonny’s life was drug addicted and will be continuing like this. Sonny was arrested for selling and using heroin and the narrator was really angry about it. As

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a compilation of many short stories put together to convey the problems in Ireland during that time. Many of his characters are searching for some kind of escape from Dublin, and this is a reoccurring theme throughout the stories. In the story “Little Cloud,” the main character, Little Chandler, feels the need for both an escape from Dublin and also from his normal everyday life. Gabriel, the main character in Joyce’s final story of the book, “The Dead,” desires a different form of escape than Little Chandler. He desires to escape his aunts’ party, and also at times, Dublin society. Although the stories

In the short story "Eveline" by James Joyce, the title character Eveline is fearful of making a

Firstly, Joyce incorporates multiple figures of speech and elements of design to express a purpose through the events that occur in the story. As mentioned before, this story is written in first person perspective of a boy who lives with his aunt and uncle. The perspective best allows readers to understand what this boy encounters every day and his opinion on certain topics. Furthermore, it also allows readers to perceive the feelings this boy has for a girl. For example, the author mentions the boy playing and says, “The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street. The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses…” (Joyce, 1). This quote highlights the lively and childish fun the boy has with his friends.

Throughout James Joyce’s “Dubliners” there are four major themes that are all very connected these are regret, realization, self hatred and Moral paralysis, witch is represented with the actual physical paralysis of Father Flynn in “The Sisters”. In this paper I intend to explore the different paths and contours of these themes in the four stories where I think they are most prevalent ,and which I most enjoyed “Araby”, “Eveline”, “The Boarding House”, and “A Little Cloud”.

'Eveline' is one of the most limited stories that make up James Joyce's accumulation Dubliners (1914), a volume that was not an underlying business achievement (it sold only 379 duplicates in its first year of distribution, and 120 of those were purchased by Joyce himself). However Dubliners reclassified the short story and is currently seen as an exemplary work of pioneer fiction, with each of its fifteen short stories reimbursing close investigation. 'Eveline' concentrates on a youthful Irish lady of nineteen years old, who intends to abandon her damaging father and destitution stricken presence in Ireland, and search out another, better life for herself and her darling Frank in Buenos Aires. You can read 'Eveline' here.

James Joyce and H.G. Welles had different styles of writing and relied on different forms of narration. H.G. Wells was direct and focused on the external environment or situation. He did not give much insight on the thoughts or internal struggle of his characters, while James Joyce did. Joyce supplied his characters with a greater level of internal comprehension than Wells did and was able to provide more human like characters. This difference is especially seen in H.G Well’s Tono-Bungay and James Joyce’s A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. They do share their views on the lifestyle of religious people, but there is a difference in their style of writing their respective novels. They contrast in how they convey emotional moments, they portray violence in different lights, and their view toward youth is contradictory.