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A 6 page paper looking at the strength of the woman's perspective in four works from all over the world: James Joyce's 'Araby,' Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart,' Ding Ling's 'When I Was in Xia Village,' and Pramoedya Ananta Toer's 'Inem'. The paper concludes that of those stories discussed, the female principle is strongest in Achebe's African story because his women seem to have the strongest support system and strongest sense of self. Bibliography lists two sources.
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works exhibiting this quality can not always be easily spotted, however, because they lie hidden amongst works about women that simply accept the patriarchal status quo. This paper will look
at four works from all over the world: James Joyces "Araby," Chinua Achebes "Things Fall Apart," Ding Lings "When I Was in Xia Village," and Pramoedya Ananta Toers "Inem", and
see which culture seems to most strongly celebrate the "feminine principle." It would seem logical to assume that James Joyce, whose work is heavily influenced
by Freudian and Jungian psychology and the stream-of-consciousness method of writing that was very much in vogue in his time, would be fairly well in tune with his feminine side.
And yet that is not really so. Joyce was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools, where he was deeply entrenched in a patriarchal system of thought. Although
relatively early in life he was to reject his Catholicism along with his formal ties to Ireland, he was never to really lose his patriarchal outlook. His wife, Nora Barnacle,
whom he adored, was scarcely his mental equal; in fact she took no interest in his writing at all, and seems to have been content with a role as housewife
and mother. This relegation of women to one sphere and men to another is reflected in his stories and novels as well. In "Araby," for example,
Joyce tells the story of an adolescent boy who is deeply infatuated with a girl of approximately his own age. At first he does not even speak to her, contenting
himself with noticing how much he likes her long braided hair swinging "like a rope" down her back. Finally he manages to have a conversation with her; on this occasion
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