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An eight page paper which looks at the way in which James Joyce and Edna O'Brien treat the concept of death in The Dead and The Country Girls, and the importance of snow as a metaphor for death in both narratives.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLDead.rtf
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In the works of both James Joyce and Edna OBrien, the theme of death is one which recurs frequently, although the characters perceive death and its relationship to life
in slightly different ways. One of the significant influences on the lives and thinking of both writers was their upbringing as Irish Catholics, and this can be seen as a
recurrent thread in their works, especially in the way that the characters view their purpose in life, the way in which they interact with society, and the ever-present acknowledgement of
death as an integral part of life. Kate
and Baba, in The Country Girls, provide a constant contrast between their own liveliness and exuberance and the deadness of their home life: their escape from the country is, to
them, a way of escaping from premature death into life. They find their home environment stifling in a number of ways, and consider that if they do not break away
and establish themselves in the outside world, they will never have lived: in other words, their actual mortality will have been preceded by the living death of life in the
village. Even though most of the protests
surrounding OBriens novel when it was first published were concerned with the girls overt sexuality, which was considered to portray all Irish women as promiscuous, there was also an underlying
element of resentment that escaping from ones allotted place in society was seen as something praiseworthy. The slur on Irish womanhood was not only based on the girls sexuality, but
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