COMN 2200 Final: english study notes 3.doc

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 2200
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

Routine: restrictive routines and the repetitive, mundane details of everyday life mark the lives of joyce"s dubliners and trap them in circles of frustration, restraint, and violence. Desire/need for escape: the characters in dubliners may be citizens of the irish capital, but many of them long for escape and adventure in other countries. Such longings, however, are never actually realized by the stories" protagonists: the impulse to escape from unhappy situations defines joyce"s dubliners, as does the inability to actually undertake the process. Paralysis: (cid:0) in most of the stories in dubliners, a character has a desire, faces obstacles to it, then ultimately relents and suddenly stops all action. Religion (cid:0) references to priests, religious belief, and spiritual experience appear throughout the stories in dubliners and ultimately paint an unflattering portrait of religion (cid:0) the presence of so many religious references also suggests that religion traps. Dubliners into thinking about their lives after death.