English 1022E Lecture Notes - Gnomon, Physical Disability, Parallelogram
12 Sep 2012
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Every night as i gazed up at the window, i said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the euclid, and the word simony in the catechism. Dubliners: problems in ireland that joyce saw. Economic issues, parallels now with can and us. Ireland as suffering, with the failure as the roman-catholic church, causing the country to suffer spiritually: he saw them in a state of paralysis, unable to do anything about their situation, stuck as victims. Saw them as content to linger in the irish myths of humour and hospitality. Dublin = center of all this spiritual corruption and irish paralysis. Critics believed it to be a negative outlook, whereas. Joyce takes this christian idea and makes it his own. On one hand it is a sudden revelation or coming of knowledge by a central character in a story.
