FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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the mainly stagnant and paralyzed society of the city Dublin.
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the growth of the novel’s protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, and his “coming-of-age” development
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a Jewish advertitsing canvasser who makes a week-long trip to Dublin; his experiences during that week.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dubliners consists of fifteen short stories. These stories have common themes such as death, routine lifecycle, moral and material paralysis of some characters. Although the stories are about different events and characters, the commonality of aforementioned themes causes coherence in Dubliners in the sense of style.
Detailed explanation-2: -Paralysis. In most of the stories in Dubliners, a character has a desire, faces obstacles to it, then ultimately relents and suddenly stops all action. These moments of paralysis show the characters’ inability to change their lives and reverse the routines that hamper their wishes.
Detailed explanation-3: -From their inception, Joyce intended the stories to be part of a thematically unified and chronologically ordered series. It was a searing analysis of Irish middle-and lower-middle-class life, with Dublin not simply as its geographical setting but as the emotional and psychological locus as well.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories set in Dublin, published in 1914 by James Joyce. These stories lake action but disclose human situations and lead to a spiritual revelation. The stories are divided into 4 groups, which represent phases of human life: childhood, adolescence, mature life, public life.