Abstract：Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories written by James Joyce, which takes Dublin, the capital of Ireland, as their setting. All of the 15 short stories focus on a common theme, that is the widespread, callous, insensible and lifeless mental condition of the late 19th and early 20th century Irish society. With the spiritual paralysis, people in different stages of life were experiencing emotional paralysis. By analyzing the characters of the three heroes in the three stories, namely “Araby”, “The Boarding House” and “A Painful Case”, their views of love and emotional paralysis can unfold step by step. The epiphany of the three heroes is based on their views of love. The analysis is significant for us to understand the characteristic of the three heroes and even other heroes in Dubliners.
Keywords: Dubliners; paralysis; character; views of love; epiphany
情感瘫痪—解读詹姆斯·乔伊斯笔下《都柏林人》中的爱情观
摘 要：《都柏林人》是詹姆斯·乔伊斯的一部短篇小说集，它包含了15个短篇小说。15个短篇小说的背景立足于爱尔兰的首都，都柏林。所有的15篇小说都反映了一个共同的主题，那就是普遍弥漫于19世纪末20世纪初爱尔兰社会冷酷无情的、麻木不仁的和死气沉沉的精神状态。在他们的精神瘫痪下，处于不同人生阶段的人也正在经历着情感瘫痪。本文选取了《阿拉比》、《寄宿公寓》和《憾事一桩》三个故事进行分析，三个主人公分别代表了童年期、青年期、成年期三个人生阶段的人群。通过分析三位主人公的性格特点，我们可以分析得出他们的爱情观和情感瘫痪。三个主人公的顿悟也是在他们自身爱情观的基础上实现的。所以这篇研究对于我们了解三个主人公的特点乃至《都柏林人》中的其他主人公具有一定意义。
关键词：《都柏林人》； 瘫痪； 性格； 爱情观； 顿悟
Contents
1. Introduction 1
1.1 Background of Dubliners 1
1.2 Research Meaning and Purpose 1
1.3 Literature Review 1
2. “Araby”---Puppy Love in Childhood 3
2.1 The Character of the Little Boy 3
2.2 The View of Love of the Little Boy 4
2.3 The Epiphany of the Little Boy 5
3. “The Boarding House”---Ambivalent Love in Adolescence 7
3.1 The Character of Mr. Doran 7
3.2 The View of Love of Mr. Doran 8
3.3 The Epiphany of Mr. Doran 9
4. “A Painful Case”---Patriarchal Love in Adulthood 11
4.1 The Character of Mr. Duffy 11
4.2 The View of Love of Mr. Duffy 12
4.3 The Epiphany of Mr. Duffy 14
Conclusion 15
References 16
1. Introduction
1.1 Background of Dubliners
Dubliners is James Joyce’s early and prestigious work. It is the most famous collection of short stories in the West in the 20th century. The collection is published in 1914 and the 15 short stories in it are set in the background of Dublin, which is the capital of Ireland during the period from 1920s to 1930s. The heroes in these stories are mainly the citizens of lower and middle classes. Fifteen stories present fifteen different pictures of life, which profoundly reveal quite a few factors of humanity, living conditions, social reality of Dublin. James Joyce pides his short stories into four categories in each of which he focuses on a particular stage of life including childhood, adolescence, mature life and public life. Yang Yang says: “James Joyce has turned his focus to the spiritual world of his heroes” (2006: 64). In Joyce’s view, this oppressed city with narrow concepts is filled with a kind of widespread apathetic and lifeless paralysis condition of the Irish society at the turn of the century. It also reflects the universal symbolic meaning in the western world. “Since the 11th century, England had implemented colonial domination on Ireland, and Irish culture was under the colonial repression of England, which resulted in the predicament of the development of Irish culture in the early time. Irish culture was sentenced to death for hundreds of years” (Nilsen, 1996: 3). 詹姆斯·乔伊斯笔下《都柏林人》中的爱情观:http://www.chuibin.com/yingyu/lunwen_206560.html