阿拉比-Araby--James-Joyce-精美ppt制作加清晰讲解.pptVIP

James Joyce’s workDubliners Dubliners is about people’s spiritual growth. All the characters in the stories struggle, in one way or another with oppressive morality, personal frustrations, or restless desires. They are ordinary people involved in various minor yet meaningful events in everyday life. Often, these characters are on the brink of discovering something, such as loss, shame, failure, or death . Protagonist, a teenage boy fell in love with his friend Mangan’s sister secretly, and one day in the casual conversation, the girl mentioned that she wished to go to Araby, a splendid bazaar. The boy promised to go there to buy something for her. But when he arrived at the bazaar after experiencing much difficulty, he disappointedly found that the fair was not ideal as he had thought. His dream was disillusioned. Q: What’ s the meaning of the last sentence? Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger. 我抬头凝视着黑暗，发觉自己是受虚幻驱动和愚弄的可怜虫；我的双眼中燃烧着痛苦和愤怒。 What does this sentence mean? The boy suddenly realizes his foolishness, discovering the discrepancy between the real and the ideal. (epiphany) epiphany: a word with connotations of religious revelation a sudden radiant illumination. Characters suddenly realize the truth of the life, or better understand their particular circumstances usually filled with sadness and frustration. The boy underwent the epiphany, He suddenly gains greater awareness of the truth about life and comes to some understanding of himself. = he could not realize his dream in the lifeless, stagnant society. = this end deepens the theme: in such society, even the innocent child can not escape the fate of being paralyzed. The story presents this frustration as universal: the narrator is nameless, the girl is always “Mangan’s sister” They could be any boy or girl next door. In “Araby,” Joyce suggests that the frustration and paralysis are univers