By Rima Andriana (1305085072),
student of
Mulawarman University in May 2005.
Dubliners
is one of James Joyce’s works that contain 15 stories that tell about the story
around Dublin, the capital city of Ireland. Most story tell about the
epiphanies and paralysis of the characters who live in Dublin. Joyce tried to
describe his city as a realistic problems and conflicts through each
characters, so the readers able to imagine what kind of city the Dublin is. Eveline
and The Dead in Dubliners
used by Joyce to determine the real paralysis and what the most problem that
the Irish in Dublin experience; and there are things or aspects that become the
comparison between those stories as well as the similarities and as the
differences.
The
first thing is the symbol of the window. The similarity is about the trapped
of Eveline
and Gabriel. In the Eveline story,
Eveline trapped by her promise to her mother and unable to reach her own life for love to her boyfriend, Frank. In The Dead, Gabriel trapped with his own egotism; he had a high ego and always speak without genuineness and being careless when talking with others. When he talked with Lily, he finished it with give her holiday tip, and when he talked with Miss Ivors (p.2247), he finished it with talked if he sick of Irish. He made his life limited. The differences is if Eveline chose to keep trapped with her family even if she was unhappy. But Gabriel started to aware to his egotism when he recognize if he was not the only one perfect and loved by his wife.
Eveline trapped by her promise to her mother and unable to reach her own life for love to her boyfriend, Frank. In The Dead, Gabriel trapped with his own egotism; he had a high ego and always speak without genuineness and being careless when talking with others. When he talked with Lily, he finished it with give her holiday tip, and when he talked with Miss Ivors (p.2247), he finished it with talked if he sick of Irish. He made his life limited. The differences is if Eveline chose to keep trapped with her family even if she was unhappy. But Gabriel started to aware to his egotism when he recognize if he was not the only one perfect and loved by his wife.
The
another aspect is from The death symbol for the living dead(real death) and the
dead living(life like death). The similarity is The deaths in both stories made
the characters did not and could not get their Love (paralysis). In Eveline, the dead was The death of the
people who she loved: the death of her mother and her brother Ernest,
and of a girlhood friend named Tizzie Dunn. The Fear-- she is afraid to accept the truth because it
makes her feel isolated, lonely without their accompany. (par. 2), and The Death
of herself because of her promise to her mother, “he would drown her,” She's too
scared to leave Ireland, and thus sees her lover as a possible source of
danger.” (p. 34, the 1st new par.). In The Dead, the physical death was the death of Gretta’s first love, Michael Furey; and the
death of Gabriel’s egotism. The
differences is, in Eveline story,
Eveline still had a chance or still able to get her love, even in fact she
chose her family. But In The Dead,
Gretta could not able to get her love again, because of her first love was
already die. Even if she regretted it and her love still alive, no one can make
someone who die become alive again.
So, finally Dubliners is the collection of Joyce’s works when he wrote the
story about people in Dublin, that’s why It able to make us as the readers able
to imagine the common conflicts in there. Through Eveline and The Dead, we
could know if the dead people can be
still alive in the people’s heart who had been leave by them. Also, we could
aware if there are some people who still alive but actually they’re die, but
the dead of their feelings or their
soul. And through the experience of the characters, we know that if actually
someone even in their adolescence aware with something that really responsible
and able to choose something that relate with their happiness...
Don't forget to add source,, okey?!^^
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