A Comparison Of Love Experiences In James Joyce's Araby

Love anticipation is a leading aspect for just about everyone in life. Nobody wants to feel rejected by someone that they really care for and want to be a part of their lives. This eagerness can either bring about happiness or pure hopelessness for the individual. In James Joyce’s short story, “Araby”, and T.S. Eliot’s dramatic monologue, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, the expectation of love is of high regard. Both of the main characters of these short stories are constantly fighting with themselves over whether or not love in is their favor.

When the word love is heard, what comes to mind? Is it that special connection once shared with a long lost lover? Or maybe it wasn’t a lover at all but a friend, who not only loved you for you, but showed you how to love yourself. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns,author Khaled Hosseini portrays love in many different ways. Three vital themes concerning love outshines many of the themes throughout this novel.

In Robert Penn Warren's poem True Love, a man recounts his experience of watching a beautiful girl through the years. On a deeper level, the poem illustrates the perspective change from a boy to a man in regards to love and what makes it "true." The short sentence length, on average, throughout the poem, resonates in an almost discordant way. By mimicking the irregular and sometimes erratic way real humans think, it shows that even years after, the speaker still remembers those clear details.

When the narrator first noticed the so-called love of his life, he says, “my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires” (Joyce np). With this, the narrator is provided with a newfound purpose in life, yet this does not last long.

Elliot simply used these allusions to tell his own story, sometimes giving new meanings to quotes, or adding emphasis to new words or phrases. Often, these references had to be understood themselves for a reader to truly know what was being said in one of Elliot’s works. One such work that contains so many references to past writers and works, is “The Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The story of Prufrock is an intriguing one dominated by allusions and many references to earlier works of literature that Elliot himself read, and applied to a story of a modern man.

The ending of James Joyce’s “Araby” is certain to leave its reader reeling. The final scene, in which the young protagonist fails in his mission to purchase a prize for the girl he loves, drips with disappointment. The reader feels a profound melancholy which matches the protagonist’s own, an impressive feat given the story’s short length and the lack of description, or even a name, given to the boy. How does Joyce arrive at this remarkable ending? By utilizing the trappings of the Boy Meets Girl and Quest “masterplots” in his story only to reveal the story as an Initiation, Joyce creates an experience for his readers that mirrors that of the protagonist. In order to appreciate Joyce’s expertly crafted tale, one must examine the way in which

Throughout the text, the speaker uses a diverse array of literary techniques to demonstrate the multidimensional nature of their love towards a lover. First, passionate love is conveyed in the spatial metaphor of loving with “the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” Here, love is a substance that fills up and infatuates the speaker, creating a powerful drive that forces her to express it. This spatial love is overwhelming and grand, which establishes the passionate and fervent tone of the poem.

In October 1905, James Joyce wrote “Araby” on an unnamed narrator and like his other stories, they are all centered in an epiphany, concerned with forms of failures that result in realizations and disappointments. The importance of the time of this publication is due to the rise of modernist movement, emanating from skepticism and discontent of capitalism, urging writers like Joyce to portray their understanding of the world and human nature. With that being said, Joyce reflects Marxist ideals through the Catholic Church’s supremacy, as well as the characters’ symbolic characterization of the social structure; by the same token, psychoanalysis of the boy’s psychological and physical transition from one place, or state of being, to another is

In T.S. Eliot’s work “The LoveSong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, he uses diction to give an underlying meaning and tone to his poem in order to express the downfall of a man. The author uses his diction to give this poem Its tone as if he regrets what he did in life. He also shows great tone changes in this work, giving this poem a dramatic, almost tragic outlook. Many of his word choices also give his work an underlying meaning and adds to his theme and messages. A large part of his poem is also using metaphors to add to this underlying meaning and give more force to this tone he is trying to create.

Another piece of irony is toward the end of the poem when Prufrock shows his fear of death and becomes concerned with old age. Prufrock is talking to his friend as he narrates about the worries he undergoes because he is growing old and feeble (Eliot 371). The woman the speaker is referring to in a sense is not real because the presence of the woman is not there, which questions the legitimacy of the title for the poem. It can be the title is just pretending to more serious that it is since the monologue is what the character gives and sounds like a false love song. Ultimately, the irony of this title is that it is a love song that will never be sung, and that Prufrock will never voice to what his actual feelings

In Araby the narrator is in love with the sister of his friend. For a while the young narrator stares through his window and admires the young girl, then one day she speaks to him (Joyce in Gardner, Lawn, Ridl, & Schakel, 2013, p.109) they finally share more than two words. She asks if he is going to the bazaar he replies yes and promises to bring her a gift. This event leads him to believe that they have a chance. The narrator then describes his “lack of focus at school” (Joyce in Gardner, Lawn, Ridl, & Schakel, 2013, p.110) leading up to the event.

The East In Araby is romanticized to fit the expectations of a young western boy. With the idea that obtaining a gift and crossing into the mystical land of Arabia, would bring light into the boy’s life, the East is seen as a passage into

When one is seeking a new voyage to self-discovery such as love, death, war, or even an exciting moment in your life, it’s a struggle to find yourself when all of these occupancies’ are happening. In James Joyce “Eveline” and Tim O’Brien “The Things They Carried”, the characters overwhelming circumstances of events have a topic similar to each other’s story, love. With comparing any two stories, there is differences in a few topics as well. James Joyce story “Eveline” is regarding about a young girl name Eveline.

Araby explores the story of an unnamed young boy who seeks to escape the suppression of spirit his monotonous life has caused. The young boy’s only beacon of light in a dreary house in Dublin is his infatuation with his friend’s sister. He attempts to escape his paralyzing reality with the dreams of her, “Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance” (27). It is critical to note that most of the events in the story take place in the boy’s mind. Joyce employs interior monologue where he uses first person point of view to reveal the boy’s inner thoughts and feelings concerning his situation.

In “Araby”, the narrator was a young man who fell in love with his friend, Mangan’s older sister. He would do just about anything to prove his love and to win her love; the unrequited love. He went to the bazaar to purchase anything he could find for his love, but he did not make it on time. The narrator actually thought that the bazaar was a fun and stimulating place, but later realized it was only a place where people went to buy just about anything; a market.