Rum and Coke by Julia O'faolain

In “Araby”, “Eveline”, and “The Dead”, three short stories featured in James Joyce’s The Dubliners, the characters struggle with whether to live their lives with a structured routine or to seek opportunities, change, and adventure. These short stories center around everyday life for citizens of Dublin, Ireland in the early 20th century, when a choice between continuing the inherited tradition of routine and structure versus seeking any other form of life or adventure could be the most important decision in the peoples’ lives. With the terrible potato famine still in living memory and with Ireland seeking a new culture and identity, many of its citizens clung to their routine as means of survival. The quotidian routine of the character’s

Personal freedom is an inalienable right that everyone deserves. It is a powerful idea that provides courage for those who are afraid, infuses hope to those who are desperate, and grants strength to those who are oppressed. However, for the idea to come to reality, one must be mature enough to embrace and act upon it. The novel Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel tells the story of Tita, a young girl who lives under the iron fisted rule of Mama Elena. From a young inexperienced girl, to a full grown and independent woman, Tita fights against Mama Elena’s rules before and after her death, in order to make her own choice about herself. Through her struggle for freedom, Tita molds herself into a mature woman.

Most people in the West are commonly users of alcohol, and most people use this substance, this drug, to spice up their lives. Some of the people who drinks occasionally are also users of other drugs such as cocaine or MDMA or something else. And even though the majority of the population is able to be in control of their intake, some people has let the alcohol and the drugs taken over their lives. Now these drugs aren't only being used to spice up their existence, and the cocaine is now maybe being dosed up to heroine, and now these substances will be used to fill some sort of gap one cannot escape from other ways. 
 In the article my life without drugs, written by Russel Brand, we get to know Brands view on drugs by first letting us

Identity is pivotal to the story and holds its own innate power, but what is even more pivotal is that the Irish do not necessarily all share the same views. The Irish find their history very important because it is the foundation of the language. Hugh says, “It is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language” (88). It is evident then that Hugh finds the historical meanings of

The main problem being the deplorable economic hardships and social class behavior of the Irish, preventing the parents from providing good care towards their children. Although Ireland was a poor country it wasn’t all their fault because England ruled over them and had a lot of power. Jonathan Swift used many examples in a modest proposal and gave many examples in which Ireland was slowly falling apart, so to

James Joyce has been regarded as a literary genius for the better half of a century, and perhaps his most popular and most widely debated piece is the last story of Dubliners, “The Dead.” The ending paragraph of the story is deemed one of the most beautiful endings in all of modern literature, and the story’s ultimate meaning can be hypothesized and criticized in discussion after discussion, making it a popular work among the ascribed literary canon in academia. The whole of Dubliners is meant to provide an insight to the real, and often masked attitudes in Dublin and all of Ireland for the time period Joyce associated with it.

James Joyce created a collection of short stories in Dubliners describing the time and place he grew up in. At the time it was written, Joyce intends to portray to the people of Dublin the problems with the Irish lifestyles. Many of these stories share a reoccurring theme of a character’s desire to escape his or her responsibilities in regards to his relationship with his, job, money situation, and social status; this theme is most prevalent in After the Race, Counterparts, and The Dead.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the resentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard (Peake 2).

The aim of this report is to compare the difference between the women situation in Ireland from the independence till the present day, how it changed during those years.

In Dubliners, James Joyce explores the objective view of the paralysis that is a city. He believed strongly that Irish society had been paralyzed by two forces, both which he encountered throughout his life. One being England, and all of its social bewilderment, and the other being the Roman Catholic Church. As a result of this torpor the Irish experienced a downfall, economically and socially, and became the poorest country in Western-Europe. But for Joyce Ireland was not the place he considered home; in his stories, the characters often conflict with what is their home, and if it has any homely quality at all. For some of his characters, home is a place of debauchery where the days blend together, and for others home is a gloomy place they cannot abandon. In Dubliners, James Joyce reflects on his home of Dublin, of leaving and returning, and the journey everyone there faces at one point in their lives: venturing tentatively outward, but never progressing forward.

In the accumulation of short stories in "Dubliners," James Joyce presents a mosaic of the everyday existences of average workers Irishmen and their own battles with the pre-free societal and individual confinements of Victorian England. The characters of Little Chandler, Eveline, Maria, and Farrington symbolize the particular segments of the multicolored Irish populace and their all inclusive propensity to remain contained inside the cutoff points of the present day and age and inside the constraints of their general public. Regardless of life giving them chances to enhance or change their living conditions, these individuals are not prepared to proceed onward and are choked by their uncertainty, their conviction framework, and their generalizations.

“Cathleen Ni Houlihan”, encompasses the idea of honor and starkly nationalistic pride, support and service. The title character, Cathleen, appears initially as an old woman who goes throughout the homes of the various regions of Ireland seeking to recruit young men to join her cause and fight for her (to fight for an independent and separate Irish state). She appears at the home of a young man, Michael, who is on the eve of his wedding

There was significant development of Ireland as an independent country in the first few decades of the twentieth century. Through the examination of Synge’s Playboy of the Western World, Shaw’s O’flaherty, V.C., and Yeats’ Easter 1916 and Sixteen Dead Men readers are able to better understand the violence that allowed for that development to be possible within Ireland at the time.

Relationships with community, family and between male and female are a constant source of inspiration for Irish writers. Discuss with reference to examples from three genres.

In 19th and 20th century Ireland, the Catholic Church dominated the lives of many Irish citizens. The Church played a role in every aspect of their lives including their personal lives, their political lives, their education, and their work. Often people followed the Church for fear of what would happen if they didn 't follow. While for many, this control by the Catholic Church provided structure and stability in their lives, for others it was a source of major struggle and inner conflict. James Joyce found the Catholic Church’s power to be both overwhelming and repressive. In his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, we see his inner struggle portrayed through the main character Stephen Dedalus. Like Joyce, Stephen struggles throughout