Dubliners

To what extent are the protagonists of the stories in Dubliners torn between deluded dreams of fulfillment on one hand and personal inadequacy and a repressive environment on the other?

In Dubliners we can see that most of the characters are represented as weak with a sense of no more hope.They are split between dream which at the beginning we think might be possible but through out the novels we are slowly considering the fact of unachievement. On one hand we can blame the new Irish generation who is described by Joyce liked they do not have the good values anymore which by extension contributes to the paralysis and decline of Ireland.On the other we can say it is because of a viscous circle when a group involves the all country which in this case it will be due to the Anglo-Irish protestants presence in Ireland which keeps the Irish down. All this makes an unstable environment which does not help the protagonists to achieve their goals. Many novels characterise these ideas. To picture the idea of missed opportunities or unachieved goal we will analyse A Painful Case and Evelyn on the other hand the analysis of Ivy day in the Committee Room and The Dead will help us understand the unfavourable environment to change which is also full of obstacles.

In Evelyn like in a Painful Case we mostly have the Theme of missed opportunities. In this novel we see in addition to the unfavourable environment that the character is very naïve . With it Joyce creates a certain irony which attracts the reader. Also joyce uses scrupulous meanness which emphasises the sense of irony. We see that she do not want to live like her mother did, however she still takes care of her father. We see a cycle of sacrifice emerging through the story where in parallel she really thinks about having a new life. We also know that religion is omni-present all through the book like in Ivy Day in the Committee Room where religion is really appearing in a form not advantaging, “...