Title Significance in Dulbiners - created from Mind Map

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Araby

On the surface a real occasion

Deeper Meaning

Oriental fete being held in the outskirts of Dublin

Romantic term for the Middle East

Suggests an escape

The story is about orientation: derived from the orient which comes from the East

No such country

Popular throughout the 19th C to express the romantic view of the East

Story about romantic irony and a romantic view of the world

Connotes the exotic; the intriguing excitement of an imaginary world

Apocalyptic world of romance

The boy sees his failure at the bazaar as a sign for the failed romance between him and the girl

The boys erotic desires for the girl become joined to his fantasies about the Bazaar

Land of romance & beauty away from the mundane routine of city life

Unable to focus on school work due to anticipation

Originally meaning to orient yourself - know in which direction the sun rises

The boy in Araby is disorientated

Young / Inexperienced

Grace

Religious

Play on words

Supernatural gift conferred by God on man so that they might be able to attain salvation

Friends coaxing Mr. Kernan to go to church

Questionable Understanding of religion

Almost comic

Genuinely trying to help their friend

None of the men actually practice their faith

Physical dexterity and elegance

Playful - almost a joke from Joyce

Ironic as the first time we meet Mr. Kernan he has fallen down the stairs lying in filth

Lack of grace in the story

Only a few 'graceful' moments in the story

When the cyclist comes to help wash the blood from Mr. Kernan

When Mr. Power offers to take Mr. Kernan home

The Dead

Paralysis / Inner-death

Ireland

Relationship between those dead and those alive

Must not linger on the past but embrace the present

Spiritual paralysis of those who escape their inner squalid reality through daydreams, yet are limited in their imaginings

Gabriel living life as though he were dead

Physically living but emotionally dead

Inability to change

Does not truly know his wife

With death there is some resurrection of spirit

Gabriel sees himself as a shadow of a person, flickering in a world in which the living and the dead meet

Gabriel feels it is now better to live life "in the full glory of some passion"

"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

Who people appear to be and who they truly are

People at the party appear lively, but inside these people are dead - emotionally and in their ability to change

Gabriel is the exception as he changes at the end of the story

Symbol of Ireland

Troubles that Ireland is facing

Death of Irish identity

Can be a ressurrection of spirit of the Irish similar to that in the story

Joyce's optimism for Ireland

Lines beginning to blur

Dead affecting the living

As are those between imagination and reality

"the solid world itself which these dead had one time reared and lived in was dissolving and dwindling."

Gabriel's speech

Title Significance in Dulbiners