Class 7 Introduction to James Joyce.pptVIP

Dubliners “The Sisters” “Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism.” Paralysis Inability of movement Spiritual, cultural, social, political, historical malaise Malaise = unease, discomfort, depression, (a vague feeling, unsure of the cause) Simony The selling of material things for spiritual benefit Gnomon the part of a parallelogram that remains after a similar parallelogram has been taken away from one of its corners. The miss