“Dubliners” is a collection of fifteen short stories written by James Joyce in which the author analyses the failure of self-realisation of inhabitants of Dublin in biographical and in psychological ways. The novel was originally turned down by publishers because they considered it immoral for its portrait of the Irish city. Joyce treats in “Dubliners” the paralysis of will in four stages: childhood, youth, maturity and public life. The paralysis of will is the courage and self-knowledge that leads ordinary men and women to accept the limitations imposed by the social context they live in. In “Dubliners” the style is both realistic - to the degree of perfectly recreating characters and idioms of contemporary Dublin - and symbolic – giving the common object unforeseen depth and a new meaning in order to show a new view of reality. Joyce defines this effect “epiphany” which indicates that moment when a simple fact suddenly explodes with meaning and makes a person realise his / her condi
For thousands of year, the literature wasn't printed word but spoken word. Poems, tales, folklore and mythological tales were recited by professional poetry and story-tellers. The same went for medieval Britain: the epic singer or bard, and the singer of tales or scop recited their epic poems to a musical accompaniment aloud from memory and moved from one noble court to another. In Anglo-Saxon Britain the king was striving for enduring fame. This could only be achieved through glorious deeds celebrated in poetry. The best representative Anglo-Saxon poems are Beowulf and The Seafarer. The poetic genre for singing the heroic lives and deeds of the great warrior kings was the epic. Moreover, Anglo-Saxon poetry were didactic because king's glorious deeds, courage, the heroic resistance of the English at the battle of Maldon were examples to follow. These epic poems were characterized by rhetorical figures such as: alliteration: the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in