Criticism Of The Dead By Margot Norris - 1093 Words

Margot Norris’ criticism is about the silencing of women, I used this one because it helps with that point of view I want to back up in my own essay as well. Norris argues that the silencing of women in The Dead proves to make the feminist criticism stronger. She describes in depth the characters that are silenced and the ways that they are silenced and her view of on the feminist end of things. She supports that these women are silenced and makes a strong argument about it. But, overall, she says we read the novel as we choose to. Some readers may see it as different and some may not. I used two other dissertations as sources because I wanted to get someone from the educational point of view, a criticism of someone that is similar to mine and talking about this subject as well. I spared them equally and only used parts of them so far in this particular prospectus, but I chose Badcock’s essay because she explains how women were treated in Joyce’s lifetime. How the background of what I’m trying to convey is important. How Joyce saw women and how that was bled into Gabriel’s character. Beckham has the view of masculinity and how Gabriel’s ego is constantly being deflated. The argument that can be made is, he attempts to use these female characters to boost that ego, yet it doesn’t work that way. The criticism is essentially for Gabriel’s ever-changing masculinity, but it can be used as an opposing or for point of view, as well. I want to focus on the masculinity factor andShow MoreRelated Youthful Experience in James Joyces Araby Essay1607 Words   |  7 Pages and the men counting money as something uncomfortably close to his own longing. He later sees his dream as being actually sexual, and money would not buy it (v30 n2 p127). There is one realization about Araby that that is spoken well by Margot Norris who writes: The reader confronts a variety of hermeneutical options at the end of the story - ranging from straight acceptance of the boys self-estimation, to sympathy with the idealists victimization by the vulgar philistinism, to critique