His epiphanies as a literary device were intended to reveal their true, objective nature. When discussing epiphanies in Dubliners, they should primarily designate the epiphanies experienced by the characters. Throughout the collection the reader meets with characters who come to new insight, who sense some kind of revelation or who fail to comprehend the misery of their lives.
All of the characters, in one way or another, portray paralysis or captivity. Not until the end is there any promise of change. Gabriel, who by his epiphany represents all the characters portrayed in the collection, understands that he must be what he is, i.
In the collection the characters search for objects that will complete them, but when the expectations of these objects turn out to be false, they are left helpless. Gabriel is the only character that is ready to accept reality as it is. Please wait English Svenska Norsk.
Significantly, the way an epiphany is achieved, differs from the preceding example. There is, however, another aspect, which seems to me to be more significant and more contentious as well. While the latter stance broadens the concept to the point of making it useless, I regard the first position as unduly ascetic. Whatever difficulties the term poses, it conveniently captures a distinct phenomenon, be its nature metaphysical, religious, epistemological or literary, which would otherwise have to be circumscribed in lengthy details.
Nobody would go as far as to suggest that it was Joyce who actually invented such moments of insight, similarly as we cannot regard Freud as the inventor of neuroses, Oedipal complexes and other fashionable symptoms.
In pre-Joycean prose, similar moments occurred in the stories of Anton Chekhov, or, in his own times, in the novels of Virginia Woolf.
The most significant difference can be derived from the opposition: rationality and causality versus irrationality and chance. The revelatory moments for an Oedipus or Odysseus are rooted in their conscious experience and their suffering. The heroes of the Joycean Odyssey, on the other hand, usually gain their insights on the basis of irrelevant incidents, their sudden understanding depends on a particular constellation of a variety of circumstances and hence the balance thus achieved is highly precarious.
The subjective nature of such insights makes any validity of this experience questionable and I would like to elaborate on this point later on. See the bibliography at the end of this paper. Epiphany as a Mode of Perception. B S Barbora Sramkova Author. Add to cart. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Defining Epiphany 3. Conclusion 8. Bibliography 1.
Introduction How do writers make their figures perceive the world they inhabit? When Stephen himself explains his concept, it is almost as if he were describing a somewhat different phenomenon: He told Cranly that the clock of the Ballast Office was capable of an epiphany.
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