Eveline and Angela
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA PARAÍBA
CENTRO DE CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS, LETRAS E ARTES
DEPARTAMENTO DE LETRAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS
CURSO: LETRAS INGLÊS-MANHÃ
DISCIPLINA: ENGLISH LITERATURE I
PROFESSOR: JEOVÁ MENDONÇA
ALUNAS: CINTHYA DE MEDEIROS OLIVEIRA-11126098
Essay for the short story ‘Eveline’ by James Joyce: a comparative analysis between Angela (The Legacy by Virginia Woolf) and Eveline.
The short story begins with a young girl about 19 years old watching by the window of her house the evening invade the avenue. Her name is Eveline. She was reminiscing about her life. She remembered that in other times in her childhood she’d been happy with her Family, but now she finds herself in a indecision: escape to a new life or remains in her dusty life without great prospects.
Frank, a young sailor who liked Eveline brings the new possibility of life change which Eveline wants. Frank works at the port and this is the place where the Eveline change can happen. She sees Frank like a possibility of escape and finally has a new life, but the new is unknown and it scares Eveline and for her to remain in that condition of life makes her sad, but on the other hand the known is safer. The plot revolves around the impasse of indecision. Remain or scape? Eveline lives on the line of hesitation and that makes her anguished.
The James Joyce’s short story brings some similarities with the short story 'The Legacy’ by Virginia Woolf.
The short story ‘The Legacy’ shows the character Angela who is married to a man who makes her unhappy and he underestimates his wife. Angela finds herself in the status of women of her time. Women who have no autonomy of their own life and try to find and discover some way to break free from the shackles that society required them.
It’s interesting to note that within the similarities between Angela and Eveline there are some differences. Both find in a new love the chance to escape from the reality that they live, both of them are suppressed by
CENTRO DE CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS, LETRAS E ARTES
DEPARTAMENTO DE LETRAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS
CURSO: LETRAS INGLÊS-MANHÃ
DISCIPLINA: ENGLISH LITERATURE I
PROFESSOR: JEOVÁ MENDONÇA
ALUNAS: CINTHYA DE MEDEIROS OLIVEIRA-11126098
Essay for the short story ‘Eveline’ by James Joyce: a comparative analysis between Angela (The Legacy by Virginia Woolf) and Eveline.
The short story begins with a young girl about 19 years old watching by the window of her house the evening invade the avenue. Her name is Eveline. She was reminiscing about her life. She remembered that in other times in her childhood she’d been happy with her Family, but now she finds herself in a indecision: escape to a new life or remains in her dusty life without great prospects.
Frank, a young sailor who liked Eveline brings the new possibility of life change which Eveline wants. Frank works at the port and this is the place where the Eveline change can happen. She sees Frank like a possibility of escape and finally has a new life, but the new is unknown and it scares Eveline and for her to remain in that condition of life makes her sad, but on the other hand the known is safer. The plot revolves around the impasse of indecision. Remain or scape? Eveline lives on the line of hesitation and that makes her anguished.
The James Joyce’s short story brings some similarities with the short story 'The Legacy’ by Virginia Woolf.
The short story ‘The Legacy’ shows the character Angela who is married to a man who makes her unhappy and he underestimates his wife. Angela finds herself in the status of women of her time. Women who have no autonomy of their own life and try to find and discover some way to break free from the shackles that society required them.
It’s interesting to note that within the similarities between Angela and Eveline there are some differences. Both find in a new love the chance to escape from the reality that they live, both of them are suppressed by
Bibliography: Mulheres que pecam. Available: <http://mulheresquepecam.blogspot.com.br/2011/06/eveline-de-james-joyce-e-o-pecado-da.html>. Access: 13/07/2013.