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SHREE UMIYA MAHILA ARTS&COMMERCE
COLLEGE, LATHIDAD
Enrollment No. 3129200120160009
Roll No. 11
Paper No.19 A study of English Literature
Topic: “Araby” as a Modernist Literature
Ruchi Joshi

2.
The term modernism
is widely used to
identify new and
distinctive features in
the early decades of
the 20th century, but
especially after world
war I
Question of the future
of humanity what was
becoming of the world
?

3.
-A major literary movement
- started in early 20th century
- promoted experimentation and individualism
-disillusionments
-a sense of cultural crisis which is both
exciting and disquieting
-loss of faith and innocence
-“Unreliable narrator” in many forms of literature
-Art for life's sake
-growing interest in the poor class and-
the working class
-Stream of consciousness

4.
Setting
Late 1800’s early
1900’s
Lower income
neighbourhood of
Dublin
Writer’s attitude toward
his reader and his subject,
his mood or moral view.
The emotional
atmosphere expressed
by Joyce in work:
The dominant
impression of the
feelings of reader
Mood conveyed in
Araby is “Bleak one”
Tone
Mood
Setting, Mood & Tone of the story

5.
Virginia Woolf W.H.Lawrence Ernest Hemingway T.S.Eliot
James Joyce W.B.Yeats Samuel Beckett
William Faulkner
Prominent Modernist

6.
James Joyce – Master of Modernist Literature
Joyce’s name is
synonymous with
modernist literature
Joyce helped define an era of
artistic expression known as the
modernist era.
Offering instead a look at human
consciousness in a world where
grand culture myths and systems of
belief were breaking down
Joyce called these type of
moments epiphanies or revelation.
They functioned as turning points
in character’s life.
He explores what it means to be
human.

7.
Overview
Splendid bazaar with eastern
enchantment
A symbol of idealized fantasy of
love
The way to Araby is actually a
starting to come into his sexual
identity
A transformation from a boy to
adolescence
A story uses a great deal of light
and darkness
Araby employs a close first-person narrator describing
the world as it appeal to his senses.
How are
aspects of
modernism
apparent in
“Araby” by
James Joyce?

8.
Araby
“Araby” itself symbol of
beauty, mystery and
romance that the young boy
longs for his life
Using the words like........
1. Brown
2. Imperturbable
3. descent
Uses these words to
draw attention to
the dreariness and
plainness of Dublin

9.
(1)Blind street
Symbolizes dead ends in the story for in the real life
(pessimism)
Blind at once end
Empty House
Empty House
*uninhabited house
*ruinous house
Mentions it perhaps to suggest
an empty future awaiting the
boys playing on the street

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Internal v/s External
Person v/s other person
Struggle between outside force
Internal External

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(1)Internal conflict
Narrator’s feelings towards
Mangan’s sister that his religion
tells him he must control.
“All my senses seemed to desire
to veil themselves and feeling
that I was about to slip from
them. I pressed the palms of my
hands together until they
trembled, murmuring……
‘O love! O love!’ many times.”
(2) External conflict
Environmental forces
including;……………
Economic, cultural
conditions arising from
British dominance of
Ireland.
Conflict in narrator’s state of mind

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 from innocence to knowledge
Joyce
concentrates
on.........
Concentrates on character
rather than on plot to reveal the
ironies inherent in self-deception.
On one level --- Story of
initiation of a boy’s quest for the
ideal.

13.
“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature
driven and derided by vanity:
And my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”
How state of
mind related
to the boy ?

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Love & Sexuality
Joyce gives little evidence that it is
“love.” The narrator thinks of Mangan’s
sister only in in a physical way, includes no
details about her personality, and basically
shares no dialogue with her.
He is not thinking of sex; he may not
even know what sex is. But he is aware of
and appreciative of her physicality in a way
that is essentially idealistic.
protagonist’s growing sexuality is
further captured in his detailed
descriptions of Mangan’s sister’s
physical form:
“Her dress swung as she moved her
body and the soft rope of her hair
tossed from side to side.”
search for ideal
beautyWhile the story is certainly about the
difference between illusion and reality, and
the failure of reality to live up to the illusion,
it might be a stretch to see it as about the
search for ideal beauty. The narrator is only
an early adolescent. His behavior is actually
quite normal for his age, but, a little trivial in
the big picture of life.

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Use of Stream of consciousness
•Influence of mental condition on reader
•A literary technique
•By giving the written equivalent of character’s
thought process
•Portraying an individual’s point of view
•----either in a loose interior monologue
•-----or in connection to his or her reactions to
external appearance
•Assertive in syntax and punctuation
•Tracing a character’s fragmentary thoughts and
feeling
Distinguished from dramatic monologue
•The speaker is addressing an audience or third person
•Used chiefly in poetry or drama