Saturday, July 12, 2014

Compare the impact of enviroment on the individuals in the four stories "Eveline," "The Boarding House,", "The Sisters," and "The Dead."The...

Your question is too big and complicated to answer in this
format, so I've edited it down to just a
comparison.


Environment is central to all of the stories in
Joyce's collection, Dubliners, and that includes the four you've
asked about.  This is suggested, of course, by the fact that the collection is named
after the people who live in the particular city of
Dublin. 


Environment, of course, includes the cultural as
well as the geographical.


The characters in these stories
are trapped or paralyzed by their environments.    A woman is trapped in roles fit for a
mother (although certainly not great for a mother, either), even though she is only a
daughter and sister.  She has an opportunity to escape, but freezes and chooses not
to. 


Women with no education have little means of
advancement and resort to trapping a husband, and he, facing religious and cultural
ideas of duty and responsible, allows himself to be a
victim. 


 A boy is surrounded by ignorance and superstition
and tied to a priest that is a bit grotesque. 


And a couple
is trapped between the island and the continent, in a world inhabited by the
dead--literally and figuratively.  Everybody's a bit dead in "The
Dead." 


Though geography does limit Dubliners (they are
separated from the continent by the English Channel), their cultural isolation is more
important to Joyce.  Religion and tradition and lack of education paralyze the
characters, and they allow themselves to be victimized. 

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