'Passive, Like a Helpless Animal': A Psychoanalytic Study of Eveline in James Joyce's "Eveline" (original) (raw)
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A PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY OF EVELINE.pdf
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.
Paralysed: A Systemic Functional Analysis of James Joyce’s “Eveline”
ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, 2016
In homage to the work of Uroš Mozetič, the paper takes as its starting point previously developed suggestions about how the language of “Eveline” conveys a picture of the heroine as a passive, paralysed character. Using Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics as a model of stylistic analysis, it investigates the contribution of both the ideational and the interpersonal metafunctions to the meaning of the text. The results extend and amend some ideas from the literature, such as the supposed prevalence of stative verbs, and suggest that while the short story as a whole predominantly uses material processes, their potential for change is mitigated by Joyce’s aspect, tense, and usuality choices. Eveline as the main character crucially has the role of a Senser, observing and internally reacting to the world around her, and even the processes in which she acts upon things and people are modalised and shown to be either hypothetical or instigated by others.
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,...
The Oppression and Paralysis of Women in Joyce’s “Eveline” and “The Boarding House”
James Joyce's collection of short stories; Dubliners is one of the most famous modernist works in the history of literature. Stories in the collection have common qualities such as the similarity of themes and techniques and have an order according to these qualities. This paper will examine two of these stories: "Eveline" and "The Boarding House" and the themes of paralysis, oppression and emancipation. The difference between these stories which is the existence of the paralysis of both genders is going to be the other aspect. The stories of "The Boarding House" and "Eveline" in Dubliners states the oppressed and paralyzed state of women and Ireland by the employment of modernist techniques such as epiphany and open-ending.
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
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The narrator’s infraction on the character’s perspective in James Joyce’s “Eveline” affects the interpretation and reaction of the reader. The narrator interrupts on the character’s perspective through three ways. First, the narrator infracts on the protagonist’s perspective by using particular words/phrases that cannot belong to the protagonist; as a result, this creates a ‘dark’ image of the character’s condition in the reader’s mind. Second, the narrator interrupts on the character’s perspective via the use of the formula third person and past tense (she + past tense) that draws the focus of the reader to the protagonist, Eveline, and makes the reader connect with the protagonist and realize her hopelessness and powerlessness. Third, the narrator infracts on the protagonist’s point of view by raising questions in the story that triggers the reader and makes the reader sympathize with the protagonist of the story.
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Feminism in the Short Story “Eveline” by James Joyce
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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 ...