James Joyce Dubliners

The Stories in Dubliners have been described as epiphanies or revelations of some truth. Consider three stories in the collection in terms of how Joyce has used language to convey a characters moment of epiphany.


James Joyce was born in 1882, into a Catholic middle class family in the suburbs of Dublin a lifestyle that never really suited him, and moved him to question the tenants of the Catholic faith and the atmosphere of the city. He was an intelligent man and went from high school to university where he reveled in the work of Ibsen, at the time renowned for being an ‘immoral playwright’ as the subject matters he dealt with were ones polite society wasn’t supposed to acknowledge. This inspired Joyce in his own writing, and he wrote prose that showed real life in all its harsh reality. As soon as he was able to, Joyce left Dublin and never returned, however it remained the lace where all his stories were set. It seems he had an inexplicable love and hate relationship with...