Human Nature/Cycles of Life and Escape and Adventure :: Essays Papers

Human Nature/Cycles of Life and Escape and AdventureThroughout the life everyone goes through cycles of events that inevitablylead them to new directions in life. It leaves one lacking to explore alife greater than what he or she has. Such cycles can include the creationof new friendships, longing for love or lust, ennui or simply wantingsomething more from life. In the book Dubliners by James Joyce, stories ofescape and adventure are clearly evident in Araby and Eveline and The loose. Each story presents a desire to search for something greater inlife and to leave something behind. But the idea of escaping from somethingor someone, or reaching a new place, is impeded by their situationDublin.In the story Araby, a young man looks to embark on a new journey thatwith the hopes of kind his new found desire for romantic intimacy witha particular girl. The sons adventure lies in going to a place calledAraby to find a apply for this girl that he is trying to impress. If I go,he says, I will bring you something (24). Joyce uses the cycles theme inthis story. At some point in age in life everyone finds some person thathe or she likes and hope to impress in some way. A lot of times it happensmore than erst most of the time a token of our attempt to woo a specialsomeone is through gifts, usually materials, which he clearly wants to doin the story. Joyce clearly shows the boys desire to adventure, throughhis willingness to impress this girl by going to a bazaar to search for hera gift and that seems to be all he can think of for quite some time Ihardly had any patience with the serious work of life which, now that itstood between me and my desire, seemed to me childs play, awful monotonous(24). He also has this idea about the bazaar form hearing other people talkabout it.Another cycle the boy in Araby is going through is dealing with sexualityAll my senses seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I wasabout to slip them, I pressed the palms of my hold together until theytrembled (23) A bazzar is the equivalent to a modern day Mardi Gras. Joyceuses the bazaar to symbolize, exotic delights, escape, and sensuality.Joyce uses the description of the event to represent this mode In frontof me was a large building which displayed the magical name (26). Theboys infatuation with this girl leaves him with fantasies about the girl