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An epiphany guides a deeper insight into the truth of things. Joyce intends a sudden spiritual manifestation by which a character has a silent moment of full awareness and the feeling of a community with the reality surrounding him. The word ‘’epiphany’’ belongs to the religious code and originally referred to insight through the divine For epiphany J. Thematic sections 1 section (childhood)  The Sisters, An Encounter, Araby 2 section (adolescence)  Eveline, After the Race, Two Gallants, The Boarding House 3 section (maturity)  A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay, A Painful Case 4 section (public life)  Ivy day in the Commitee Room, A Mother, Grace Function of The Dead: EpilogueĮpiphany Death and connection between the living and the dead (The Sisters, The Dead) Religion Opressive and useless morality Fake friendship Snow and windows Love The fall Paralysis, gnomon, simony circular motion The collection could be a portrait of Dublin (which becomes a character) and a great all one epiphany The first story begins with a boy looking at a bright window, thinking about death and later you can read ‘’I felt my soul receding pleseant and vicious place’’ (The Sisters) The last story ends with Gabriel who stands behind the window, looking at the snow and thinking about death: ‘’His soul had approached that region where dwell the vast hosts of the dead.’’ (The Dead)ĥ Epiphany From greek epiphaneia "manifestation, striking appearance’’ Joyce is more intrested in a characters’ inner than external reality Moral environment of Dublin: religiosity mixed with materialism ( examples: simony in The Sisters and the commercial metaphore used by Fatehr Purdon in Grace) Novel’s structure paralysis  epiphany  escape  failure (percieved by the character or not)  frustration The structure conveys an idea of inactivity and stagnation Paralysis is conveyd by the absence of events and the slow narrative rhythm J.

1 The Dead from The Dubliners by James JoyceĢ The Dubliners (1914) Collection of novels / collection of epiphanies Portrait of the Dubliners (The dubliners/the dead)  human behaviour Portait of a spiritual paralysis  the death of the soul The dubliners are slaves of their family, moral, cultural, religious, and political life.