The Oppression and Paralysis of Women in Joyce’s “Eveline” and “The Boarding House” (original) (raw)

James Joyce’un ‘Eveline’ ve ‘The Boarding House’ adlı Hikayelerindeki Ruhsal Çöküntü ve Epifani

DergiPark (Istanbul University), 2012

This article intends to highlight James Joyce's ironical outlook for the existence of epiphanies in women's lives to be released from their spiritual paralysis and stagnation as indicated in "Eveline" (1904) and "The Boarding House" (1906) in Dubliners. In "Eveline" and "The Boarding House," Joyce portrays women who are in a struggle for setting aside the inequalities and miseries of their social environment through their representative wish for emancipation in their lonely and alienated state of minds. Trapped in a web of social expectations and constraints, women intend to escape from the strict patriarchal society of Dublin in these short stories. Structured and controlled by the issue of femininity, James Joyce writes about the effects of the Irish society on female adolescents. "Eveline" and "The Boarding House" offer two portrayals of women who are enclosed by the dominance of the rigid patriarchal society which ends up the need for emancipation from social rigid rules. In these stories, however, the women characters portray a continuation of the choice of their domestic female roles, i.e., their struggle for emancipation turns out to be useless. "Eveline" is the story of a young teenager who faces a dilemma where she has to choose either she has to live with her father or escape with his boyfriend. In "The Boarding House," Mrs. Mooney, a working woman who has rooms to be rented by the young male lodgers, is also in a struggle for supporting herself and her two children. She is in search for emancipation from her drunken abusive husband having social prejudices. Hence, both of these stories highlight women's tendency for exploring their selfhood and free will because of the inequalities and struggles of patriarchal society of the time in which they are spiritually paralyzed. Thus, James Joyce hints at women's wish for emancipation

Spiritual Paralysis and Epiphany: James Joyce’s “Eveline” and “The Boarding House”

Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences, 2012

Bu makale, James Joyce’un Dubliners adli eserinde bulunan “Eveline” (1904) ve “The Boarding House” (1906) adli hikayelerinde gorulen kadin karakterlerin icine dustukleri ruhsal cokuntuden, hayatlarinda degisiklige sebep olan anlik olaylarin (epiphany) etkisiyle kurtulduklarini ironik olarak gostermeyi amaclamaktadir. Joyce, “Eveline” ve “The Boarding House” adli hikayelerinde, kadinin sosyal cevresindeki esitsizlikten ve aciya sebep olan durumlardan kurtulamadiklarinindan dolayi yalnizlasmis ve toplumdan uzaklasmis zihneyetleri ile basbasa kaldiklarini vurgulamaktadir. Bu hikayelerde, sosyal sinirlamalara maruz kalan kadinlarin buyuk cogunlugunun, o donemde Irlanda’nin Dublin sehrinde hakim olan ataerkil yapidaki yalnizlasmayi ve uzaklasmayi yansittigi gorulmektedir. Dolayisiyla, Joyce bu hikayelerde sosyal toplumun kadinlar ve genc kizlar uzerindeki etkilerine deginmekte olup erkeklerin hakim oldugu kati sosyal toplumdan kadinlarin kacis cabalarini belirtmektedir. Gozlenen odur ki,...

Feminism in the Short Story “Eveline” by James Joyce

Journal on Education

The message is conveyed by the author (writer) which is conveyed either explicitly or implicitly “Eveline” is a short story written by James Joyce. This short story was published in 1904 with a story setting around the same year and decade. The short story “Eveline” is then considered to have feminist values. Feminism is an awareness of gender injustice that befalls women, both in the family and society. The research uses a descriptive form of research. The data source in this research is the short story “Eveline” by James Joyce. Published in 1904 in Dublin, Ireland. The data used in this study are all short story quotations in the form of words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs in the short story “Eveline” by James Joyce that illustrate feminism. Eveline is portrayed as a girl who generally does housework (stereotypical of women’s duties as house caretakers). Eveline’s consideration of her choice to stay with the grueling routine with her family and abusive father, or to run away ...

'Passive, Like a Helpless Animal': A Psychoanalytic Study of Eveline in James Joyce's "Eveline"

VEDA'S JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE [JOELL], 2017

In James Joyce's intriguing short story "Eveline", the protagonist Eveline Hill and her life were vastly affected by her traumas of personal history, thus, making her passive, like a helpless animal. This particular paper tries to evaluate the character Eveline from the psychoanalytical point of view and find out why this character behaved in a certain way. She was driven by her Superego and failed to rationalize with her Id and Ego for which she felt guilty, passive and helpless. All her important actions and decisions were majorly influenced by the treatment that she obtained from her family especially from her father in the childhood which contributed to her inner conflicts and eventually made her psychologically paralyzed. This work might be helpful for those researchers who would like to grasp more knowledge on psychoanalytic study or analyzing any character from a psychoanalytic point of view.

James Joyce as a realistic narrative :truth or fiction

James Joyce's, Dubliners, is the collection of short-stories in which “The Dead” and "Eveline" are included. "The Dead" is the last, longest and most famous story of James Joyce's and the "Eveline" is the forth and one of the most attractive story in this book. Joyce's early life, family background, and his catholic background appear in the way he writes these stories. Joyce usually relates his stories to events in his life, there are some stories which are actually events that took place in his life, "The Dead" for example. This study deals with how the image of Joyce's experiences and their consequences in the life is connected with the image of Eveline's and Gabriel's life. This paper is analysis this matter in three dominations: the effect of Joyce's childhood and adulthood and his family, his desires for escaping from his mother land(Ireland), his religious background and the theme of paralysis and death in his country on Eveline and Gabriel.

A Dublin Paradox through James Joyce’s “Eveline”

Every “place” has psychological effects on its residents to some extent, as well as, in a very practical sense, physical effects. This is because people have the tendency to adapt themselves to the environmental conditions of the places that they sustain their lives by acquiring the “character” of those places. Reflections of these psychological effects can be clearly seen in many literary works. James Joyce’s Dubliners, is a good example of this affection as a reflection. In his book, Joyce examined the middle-class Irish society from which he originated. He said Dubliners was a looking-glass in which the Irish people could see themselves and their paralysis (Walzl 31).

In Search of Cultural and Personal Experience behind woman in James Joyce’s Dubliners

Artes Humanae

Artes Humanae ■ 1/2016 ■ artykuły an individual's choice and use of words reflects his/her subjective experience and idiosyncratic assessment of reality. Our lexical material comprises the lexical item woman in James Joyce's Dubliners, the attempt being to show how the senses of woman in the collection are related to the writer's private life-story and his own vision of the Irish culture and society as regards gender issues at the turn of 19 th and 20 th centuries 2. On the methodological plane, our position is that the senses of a word are not just extensions of one another, but, rather, they all constitute clusters based on "family resemblance" 3. As there is no generally established, or agreed, rule on the basis of which we can predict conventionalized meanings of a lexical item, it seems that the senses are culturally defined and have to be learned, rather than can be predicted. Even within one culture, the meaning of a word is by no means the same in all minds. Still, it is possible to find experiential and dictionary-based way of tracing semantic histories of words. On methodological and practical inadequacies of the latter, see additionally Łozowski (2015). 2 We attempt this specifically in our contextual analysis below. Yet, a few words of generalization might prove useful here. Gleed (2011: 51-52) points out that having spent in Ireland his first 22 years of life, James Joyce left not only his own country but also abandoned his Roman Catholic religion, choosing "self-imposed exile" in Continental Europe. In the words of Bulson (2006: 21), "Joyce was born and raised in the nineteenth-century Ireland, but he matured in twentieth-century Europe." Although in many European countries this was the period of great changes as regards gender roles, Ireland's development concerning this issue was considerably postponed to the result that old Victorian values were preserved there much longer. Irish women at the turn of the 20th century were severely abused with no rights to defend themselves. To conform to societal norms, they had to be obedient, devoted to family life and religion, passionless, and submissive towards men (

Analysis of James Joyce Short Stories

International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 2015

Collection of short stories of James Joyce in a book under the title of “Dubliners” (1914) is a collection composing of 15 short stories, which topic of all of them is living in Dublin (stories about death, love, live in school, etc.). Short story of “sisters” narrates feelings of a boy about death of a priest. The first woman, who is afraid of love, a mother in law speaks about ambition and destroys her daughter. It ispainful narrative of a single man, who leaves the woman he loves and the woman finds in the time of her death that he has been in his loneliness all his life. Accordingly, it could be mentioned that the author has selected in his short stories a style that Flober has been its establisher. Hence, stories in the collection of Dubliners have been strongly image-based and have been less relied on storied actions. (Stein et al, 2008) The present study has analyzed two short stories of the mentioned collection under the titles of “The Dead Persons” and “The sisters\s”. In t...

“Can this really be the end?” - Joyce’s Dubliners and their imprisonment

The dissertation is an attempt to trace the theme of escape in James Joyce’s Dubliners, published in 1914. The objective of this paper is to elucidate the nature of escape, in the sociological context of Dublin in the early 1900’s, and its psychological implications which are grounded in the protagonists’ background, gender, aspirations and immediate crises. Escape which transcends time and space is, in Joyce’s work, driven by desire to find a better life in the unknown, to embrace the unknown, while taking into account the social determinants it is contingent to. ‘The Encounter’, ‘Araby’ and ‘Eveline’ have been chosen as the focal points as each story portrays its central character as grappling with a desperate need to escape their present reality, a need arising out of the general claustrophobia. The title of the paper borrowed from a popular folk song of the 1960’s, besides conveying a similar helplessness, calls to mind the dead end of a North Richmond Street in the third story of the anthology. Named after the inescapable city, the book makes sure that Dublin plays an important role in deciding whether or not Joyce’s characters will be as fortunate as him, in clinching an escape for themselves. The paper, by a loose application of New Criticism, also seeks to identify different routes of prospective escape contemplated by the protagonists, and what this whole endeavour has taught or cost them, irrespective of whether they were ultimately able or unable to escape.