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Dubliners - Short Story Notes

The document outlines various literary works and their themes, focusing on authorial choices and the creation of meaning through evidence and analysis. It emphasizes motifs such as light and dark, religious imagery, and the contrast between expectations and reality in the context of love and escape. Each section suggests connections between different texts, highlighting their thematic relevance.

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Dubliners - Short Story Notes

The document outlines various literary works and their themes, focusing on authorial choices and the creation of meaning through evidence and analysis. It emphasizes motifs such as light and dark, religious imagery, and the contrast between expectations and reality in the context of love and escape. Each section suggests connections between different texts, highlighting their thematic relevance.

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The Sisters

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)
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An Encounter

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)
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Araby

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)

Our Motif of light and dark


and religious imagery
The narrator and his Religious imagery reminds us that
she is unobtainable for him. Light
friends are described as
expectations of being in the shadow and = symbol of the church.
escape and/or the girl he is in love with Connotations of light =
love do not is surrounded by light. awareness, pureness, spirituality,
match reality. hope (the girl is bringing hope to
the boy’s life) but also blindness,
Later the light takes on
religious significance and dark = sin, shame, also ignorance.
The boy is blind to the truth
the girl is described as regarding his expectations (she is
standing under a street blinding!)
light. She is described as
an angel. (nun). Empty house symbolises false
hope.
Towards the end when the girl
is on the religious retreat the CF. The Sisters where dark is
boy notices the darkness of associated with the priest
the house.
(the dark room, lack of
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Eveline

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)
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After the Race

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)
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Two Gallants

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)
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The Boarding House

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)
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A Little Cloud

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)
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Counterparts

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)
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A Painful Case

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)
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A Mother

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)
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The Dead

Themes/meaning Broad Authorial Choice Evidence (Quotes and Sub choices which you find in
(POINT) examples) your evidence and analysis
(how is meaning created?)

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