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    text‚ the main staged of the protagonists life will be explored‚ her pride in herself‚ her embarrassment of being who she is and her indifference of life itself. Firdaus states that she has always been ’searching for something that would fill her with pride’. This search for pride had been to some extent fulfilled in the form of a motif used by the author‚ her ’secondary school certificate’. This is a recurring motif throughout the novella repeated by the protagonist many times. This shows her sense

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    and Laura are the main characters of the play. Laura is an important character‚ as is Amanda‚ but they are not the protagonist. Tom Wingfield is the protagonist; the story belongs to him. "The protagonist of a literary work is the main character‚ who must change in some way during the course of the events‚ even if the change is entirely internal. Tom is clearly the protagonist of The Glass Menagerie. Although he is not heroic and will probably never triumph over his obstacles‚ he does take action

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    was especially harder on Eveline‚ the protagonist of "Eveline‚" by James Joyce. Eveline‚ "trapped like a helpless animal" by her deathbed promise to her mother‚ is morally unable to break her vow and flee her miserable home to seek a new life for herself. First‚ Eveline made a deathbed promise to her mother; that she would keep her family together as long as she could (Joyce 6). This promise implied the caring of her brothers‚ her father and their home. As long as Eveline could take care of their

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    Present: "Eveline" We begin James Joyce’s story of "Eveline" with the introduction to the protagonist‚ a girl who longs a different life. She spends the opening reflecting on her past memories‚ when she had happier times with her whole family. Then focuses on her work life; would leaving her job be wise or would it be worth what she’d receive afterwards? Eveline has a clear void in what used to be a life she enjoyed‚ but now finds lacking. A glimmer of hope shines through for Eveline when she recalls

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    elsewhere. The Irish were second-class citizens within their own nation; Ireland was a British colony and the Northern Protestants controlled the economy of the country. Catholic families often faced hardship. Alcoholism and abuse‚ as portrayed in “Eveline” were rampant. As a result‚ many of the Irish sought to escape James Joyce represents everyday life of Dublin in the early twentieth century in his collection of short stories‚ Dubliners. Dubliners consists of 15 stories and each of them unfolds

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    Eveline Joyce set up the collection to move from stories about childhood onto stories about adolescence and finally stories about mature life and public life‚ all within the confines of Ireland’s big city. The text under interpretation is a bright example of a short story Joyce’s "Eveline" was the advent between adolescence and maturity. The story’s protagonist and title character‚ Eveline‚ is largely affected by the feminist issues of the time period. These feminist ideas are illustrated through

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    In “Eveline‚” James Joyce uses the juxtaposition of the ever-changing setting and the unchanging stoic character of Eveline in order to exemplify the character’s reluctance and inability to move forward. James Joyce is known for his juxtaposition of light and dark throughout his short stories‚ specifically in his story “Araby.” I would argue that Joyce is using the contrast of opposing forces described above between the setting and the character in a similar way as he was light and dark. “Araby”

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    a very important issue. In the short story "Eveline" James Joyce portrays the life of a young woman who faces dilemma whether to leave her house in search of a new life or to stay in the dreary and gloomy life that she already knows. Eveline is a nineteen-year old girl. She lives with her father and two younger siblings. Her mother and one of her older brothers have died and she has another older brother who works away from home. Eveline works in a store does all the housework at home

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    How does Wilfred Owen provoke sympathy for his protagonist in ‘Disabled?’ Owen provokes sympathy for his main character throughout the book and in every stanza. In the opening stanza Owen connects the reader with the main character‚ by making the reader feel sorry for him. The boy feels as though he is ‘waiting for dark‚’ this makes the reader feel pity on the boy‚ as he knows he is waiting to die. By connecting the reader with the protagonist they feel more sympathy for him and they feel upset

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    In “Eveline”‚ the short story from James Joyce‚ the author introduces us into the life and conundrum of a girl named Eveline. In this story‚ our main character is struggling to choose between a new life away from her roots‚ or staying with the remainder of her divided family. A young man named Frank ‚ who has been courting her‚ and has offered to take her away back to his home in Buenos Ayres in search of a new life. However‚ Eveline chooses to stay in the gloomy‚ life sucking environment

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