The Dead Essays & Research Papers

Comparative Analysis of The Dead and Things Fall Apart

5 Pages 2454 Words

The novel, The Dead by James Joyce begins with the character, Gabriel and his wife, Gretta arriving at an annual dinner party. At this party, Gabriel has different encounters with several different people. Throughout The Dead, themes begin to reveal themselves, jealousy and masculinity/male pride, as well as anti-nationalism, death, and women. The second novel I will be looking at...

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The Dead': Gabriel Conroy Characteristic

2 Pages 792 Words

In the short story, The Dead from the novel Dubliners by James Joyce, readers are led through a bustling, yet monotonous, dinner party by the protagonist Gabriel Conroy, an intelligent, impersonal, “cold-air” introvert who is constantly found present in his own thoughts, rather than mentally present in the majority of situations throughout the plot. In the critical essay, also titled...

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Collective and Individual Identity in Various Literary Works

7 Pages 2994 Words

This essay will focus on the ideas of collective and individual identity and how they are presented in ‘The Dead’ (1914) by James Joyce, Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley, ‘Daddy’ (1965) by Silvia Plath and The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood. The idea of identity, in general, is a central theme in all of these texts. Gordon...

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The Dead essays

Comparative Analysis of The Dead and Things Fall Apart

The Dead': Gabriel Conroy Characteristic

Collective and Individual Identity in Various Literary Works

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