Theme Of A Painful Case By Ame Joyce

In “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin, he talks about the different kind of suffering that people go through, and that not one person’s suffering is harder or easier to deal with; it is all relative. Perhaps we may, as a normal human being, consider that our suffering is more difficult to deal with than that of that other person; but one can ever know. In the story, both the narrator and his family are in many ways affected by sufferings. In addition, the narrator and his brother, Sonny begins to unravel their complex relationship as brothers; and teach each other about the greater meanings about life and suffering. Throughout the story, the narrator is a very persistent into a parental role; by the end, it is Sonny who teaches his brother a

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In "Two Gallants," the sixth short story in the Dubliners collection, James Joyce is especially careful and crafty in his opening paragraph. Even the most cursory of readings exposes repetition, alliteration, and a clear structure within just these nine lines. The question remains, though, as to what the beginning of "Two Gallants" contributes to the meaning and impact of Joyce's work, both for the isolated story itself and for Dubliners as a whole. The construction, style, and word choice of this opening, in the context of the story and the collection, all point to one of Joyce's most prevalent implicit judgments: that the people of Ireland refuse to make any effort toward positive change for themselves.

Eventually, after their companionship has developed for some time, Mr. Duffy abruptly decides to sever the connection completely. Though the true motive for this choice is unclear, the decision is definitely rooted in the dominant status in the relationship

The short book Victims by Phillip Shaw Paludan highlights the killings of fifteen individuals during the Civil War in a remote Appalachian area in North Carolina. This area, called Shelton Laurel, was home to many families and most of them were poor. What Paludan writes is how the Civil War gave way for revenge. Because of the location of Shelton Laurel, the Confederates often tried to take control of the area and recruit many people for their war efforts. Unionist also wanted recruits from this area as well.

A Case of Murder by Vernon Scannel is a poem which deals with a very

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Joyce 's novel demonstrates a city and a society full of contradictions, parochial ideas, and paralysis. The Dublin inhabitants are divided by the river Liffey, into 'North and South ', 'rich and poor classes

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.

“An Alcoholic Case” is the story of a nurse who is assigned with an alcoholic case. Throughout the story, she struggles to take care of her patient, but at the same time is worried about his sanity. One comes to realize the cause of the patient’s alcoholism when the narrator states, “She knew there were three medals from the war in his jewel box...” and it becomes clear why the man is suffering so much (Fitzgerald 334). He had psychological scars because of what had happened to him while serving in World War I. Similarly, “My son the murder” is a short-story about Leo, a father who becomes

Yukio Mishima, a well-known Japanese writer, expressed his sexual orientation in a book called Confessions of a Mask. In that book, he spends his entire childhood with only girls, and this explains why his inside world was so strange compared to other children. A boy lives and plays only with girls and women, will he confused about his sexual preference? The answer is definitely sure. Meanwhile, his poor health situation might also have some relationships to his mania in describing death in this book. He might think living in a poor bad health situation is worse than being a dead corpse. His eager for men and death are the two key components of his five-year-old inside world. Homosexual was against the tradition in 1950s when the author published this book. By using a five-year-old mask to create many fantasy stories, Mishima implicated his sexual orientation. His mania in describing death was also kind of his way to against the old tradition which he might think old tradition was likely to be the illness he had when he was young.

“To be or not to be, that is the question.” Hamlet’s famous quotation implies only two solutions: to be, or to not be. However, there is another option that Shakespeare never explored: to remain paralyzed between the two states, unable to commit to either. James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of short stories first published in 1914, that follows the inhabitants of Ireland. Published nearly a half a century before the Republic of Ireland would be recognized as an independant country, many of Joyce’s short stories in Dubliners explore the theme of Irish paralysis, that Joyce found afflicted both the whole of Ireland and its individual citizens. Many

Dubliners by James Joyce is a collection of stories centered around Joyce’s intentions to write the moral history of Dublin’s paralysis. Although paralysis seems to be the main theme in Dubliners, another motif comes across in the pages of the stories. As if all of the mental, physical, and emotional problems weren’t enough, many of the characters in Dubliners are alcoholics. Joyce utilizes the character of the drunk in many of the stories in Dubliners; hardly a story skips a mention of a drink. The negative effects of alcohol occur again and again through the collection of stories. For the most part, men are brought down by their addiction to alcohol and their inability to control themselves when they are drunk. In Dubliners, the characters seek their own desires, face obstacles that frustrate them, and ultimately give in to their need to consume alcohol. With Dubliners, James Joyce brings attention to the different issues that consuming alcohol caused in early 20th century Ireland using three particular stories; “Counterparts”, “Grace” and “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”.

The author throughout the story persists on painting the setting of the story to be dark or even unseeing, dirty and miserable. Joyce

Thus, we find that the early stories contain but the barest allusions to the Ninth Circle, and they tend toward foreshadowing more than anything else, portending both the general literary and philosophical thrust of the book, and the development of the characters from childhood to maturity, especially spiritually. The second half of Dubliners, focused on adults and adult problems, contain the bulk of Ninth Circle allusions, and some seem so deliberately crafted around the idea of the Ninth Circle, that one might call them homages to Dante. In “A Painful Case,” we find over a half-dozen obvious allusions to the final three canti of Inferno. James Duffy, upon learning of his former fiancée’s suicide (she deliberately steps in front of an oncoming train), finds himself in a state of severe melancholy as he realizes that she killed herself out of a sense of betrayal, her betrayal to her family with regard to her affair with James, and her betrayal by James with regard to his decision to run away. James ponders all this as he makes his way through a deserted park and along a lakeshore “frozen in the depths of a dismal December the likes of which Ireland had never before known, and which all worried it might know forevermore” (source). Joyce writes, “James gnawed the rectitude of his life” (Joyce 113), which puts the cogent reader in mind of Count Ugolino della Gheradesca, one of the denizens of the Ninth Circle. Dante describes him as “gnaw[ing]” upon the head of one of his