Parallels between Araby and Genesis
In the Bible, the story of creation occurs in the garden of Eden. The book of Genesis tells the tale of Adam and Eve, whom God allowed to eat the fruit from any tree in the garden except for that of the central tree of knowledge. Unfortunately, with the serpent’s deceitful encouragement, Eve enticed Adam to eat from that banned tree. The fruit opened Adam’s eyes to the reality that he was naked (Gen. 3:7-20). Interestingly, the second paragraph of “Araby” alludes to the Genesis account of Eden. “The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple tree and a few straggling bushes.” Aside from commenting on the “eroded” isle of Ireland, Joyce uses this allusion to arrange the entire plot of the story: man trusts woman, woman tricks man, and man realizes his mistake. “Araby’s” Eve is the beloved girl who is kept nameless by Joyce, while Adam is the narrator, an adolescent boy who is infatuated with the Eve. Through an examination of the shift in emotions and thoughts of the narrator through a plot filled with trust and betrayal, the reader discovers that a person’s mind distorts reality by creating a fantasy environment. Without any control over reality and emotion, this illusionary world imprisons the thinker. In other words, one’s mind self-paralyzes.
According to the narrator, Eve’s character is an innocent and beautiful young woman. Since the story is written in first-person perspective, all commentary and descriptions in the story are those from the narrator’s perceptions. Although the only name mentioned by the narrator for her is “Mangan’s sister” (perhaps after the Irish poet), the girl is obviously the object of the narrator’s affection. The reader is int...
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By the examination of the shift of emotions and thoughts of the narrator through the plot of trust and betrayal, the reader discovers that a person’s mind distorts reality by creating a fantasy environment. Without any control over reality and emotion, this illusionary world imprisons the thinker. The hero narrator, the Adam, is betrayed by woman, the Eve. Adam’s emotions had distorted his perception; Eve was his only companion, and the loss of her would have been devastating. Considering his emotions had trapped him, Adam had no option but to follow Eve. “Araby” seems to be Joyce’s comment on the Genesis story. Joyce indicates to the reader that Adam had no choice except to eat the prohibited fruit. Adam was paralyzed, similar to the narrator in “Araby” and many other characters of Dubliners.
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The theme of light and darkness is apparent throughout Joyce's Araby. The dark, sombre setting of the story creates a sense of hopelessness within the narrator, an unnamed young boy. The negative connotations associated with the city of Dublin are used to illustrate the narrator's state of hopelessness. It is only through his illusions that he is able to catch a glimpse of light amidst the darkness.
James Joyce's use of religious imagery and religious symbols in "Araby" is compelling. That the story is concerned somehow with religion is obvious, but the particulars are vague, and its message becomes all the more interesting when Joyce begins to mingle romantic attraction with divine love. "Araby" is a story about both wordly love and religious devotion, and its weird mix of symbols and images details the relationship--sometimes peaceful, sometimes tumultuos--between the two. In this essay, I will examine a few key moments in the story and argue that Joyce's narrator is ultimately unable to resolve the differences between them.
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In “Araby”, James Joyce details the transition of a young Irish boy into his adolescence. Looking for love and excitement, the narrator becomes obsessed with pleasing his best friend’s sister, eventually ending up at a special festival to buy her a present. Disappointed by the bad- natured shopkeepers and its closing down, he reaches a frustrating epiphany about the fine line between reality and his wistful dreams. Through the use of fanciful imagery and detached characterization, Joyce demonstrates how romance belongs to the realm of the young, not the old, and that it is doomed to fail in a word flawed by materialism and a lack of beauty.
As childhood is the first stage in life, in Dubliners, Araby is projected as a short story in which the main character is striving for a love that can only be bought. The young boy symbolizes pure hope. He has exotic dreams to meet and be with this girl that he admires and loves. The pressure to get her attention blinds him and everything comes crashing down as the bazzar closes and he does not get a chance to buy her a gift. He was looking for guidance from his uncle, but his uncle is preoccupied getting drunk. At the bazzar the boy realizes that he has been blinded by love, and that his childhood dreams will never become a reality. In Araby, the epiphany occurs right at the end as he says: “gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger” (Araby 28). These last sentences symbolize how crushed and hopeless he is, as well as his inability to move forward. Mangan’s sister represented ho...
Joyce emphasizes the unnamed narrator’s unrealistic view of life in “Araby” by showing his loss of vision. The boy is infatuated with his friend’s older sister, Mangan, and he often watches her in secret. Within the comfort of his own home, he habitually “lay[s] on the floor” and makes sure the blinds are “pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that [he] could not be seen” (Joyce 42). By using the blinds to cover his curious stares, he is taking away the vision of Mangan’s sister. He very purposefull...