Dubliners and A Christmas Carol Flashcards
Imagery in the room of Eveline
Dusty, tired, familiar, same as Eveline has always know it today
Author, genre, and literary movement of “The Dead” and “Eveline”?
James Joyce, short stories from the collection Dubliners, modernism
Imagery outside of Eveline’s room
“Evening invades the Avenue”, darkness is overcoming everything outside.
Few people passing in the street (Eveline is alone).
Houses built where field used to be, “everything changes”
Mood established in Eveline
Wearisome, dull melancholy
Changes in Eveline’s life
Mother died,
families that used to play in the Avenue are dead or moved away, dad is abusive
Symbol of snow
Covers all of Ireland, Gabriel often protects himself from snow,
Symbolizes death and time passing
In the beginning, Gabriel wants to avoid snow. By the end, Gabriel excepts and acknowledges that the snow is falling on all things
Thought tormented music
Foreshadowing Epiphany
Light and dark
Truth and unwillingness to face it
In the beginning Gabriel avoids the light, often found in the shadow.
By the end, Gabriel faces the light
Symbol of dust
Suggests age and monotony
Themes in Dubliners
Paralysis
Epiphany
Life and death
Escape
Author and genre of a Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, novella
Ghost of Christmas past
Childish, yet with characteristics of old age
Light coming from his head
The ghost of Christmas present
Appears with torch
Sheds incense to relieve arguments
Takes Scrooge to Cratchit’s to show him togetherness and gratefulness
Ignorance and want
Ghost of Christmas future
Dressed in black, Scrooges bleak future
Shows what happens if Scrooge does not change
The Cratchit’s
Represent humility, gratefulness for what they have – a true family
