ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

JAMES JOYCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In “Ivy Day in the Committee Room, ” which historical national figure is celebrated?
A
Leopold Bloom
B
Molly Bloom
C
Charles Stuart Parnell
D
Wolf Tone
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"Ivy Day” refers to an Irish holiday that commemorated Charles Stewart Parnell, an important Irish nationalist figure.

Detailed explanation-2: -In “Ivy Day, ” Joyce vents his anger at his native Dublin’s political paralysis by depicting intergenerational corruption and stagnation: the old have become selfish hypocrites and they have corrupted the young into the same attitudes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ivy Day (Irish: Lá an Eidhneáin) was formerly observed on October 6 in Ireland, in memory of the prominent nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell who died on that date (June 27, 1846 – October 6, 1891).

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