Mapping: Dubliners
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| + | Looking at all of the maps helps the reader to draw conclusions that otherwise may have gone unnoticed. First of all, all of the stories follow a linear path, none of them circle back to the place they began. This parallels the growth that each character experiences as a failure to find the love that they desire. This linear path shows that the transformation that each character goes through is irreversible, the young boy in Araby realizing his search for love was in vain, the inability of Eveline to leave her "not so bad" life, and Maria's perpetual loneliness are all significant events that the characters must come to terms with. Also, every story begins and ends in the greater Dublin area. This is easy to pick up on when reading the stories, but the maps offer a better view of this. The fact that the stories all begin and end in Dublin shows an inability of the characters to leave their home despite their best efforts, with some exception for the young boy in Araby. The closest any character gets to leaving Dublin would be Eveline until her fear of the world paralyzes her and she watches her love leave without her. Maria's only escape from Dublin would be her foreshadowed death by her placing her hand in the clay when she plays the Halloween game. The significance of these facts is that they may symbolize James Joyce's own beliefs that Ireland at the time was being oppressed by Britain and by the Catholic Church making Ireland like a prison with no way out. Overall, having the ability to look at all three maps together helps to draw some in depth conclusions that may have otherwise gone unnoticed. | ||
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| + | Going into this project I was very unsure of what I would find, but I think the results were very interesting. The mapping process although challenging proved to be very rewarding. I think it would be interesting to see all of the stories mapped to see if more of these maps could help support the conclusions I drew from these maps as well as maybe revealing some that could not be observed with only these three maps. | ||
