... reconcile what she knows to be wrong with the indoctrinated Catholic conviction that the Pope cannot be wrong. The irreverence of Joyce's depiction of Epiphany Day is the crucial element of The Dead and a reminder that it is a spiritual death that is at the core of the paralytic condition of which the Catholic church is the main cause.We see also the political divisions ... ,D. The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Dyson,A. James Joyce Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. London: The Macmillan Press, 1982. Hodgart,M. James ...

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... TO THE CHARACTER IN THE STORY ITSELF. DISCUSS WITH REFERENCE TO TWO OR THREE STORIES IN DUBLINERS. James Joyce adapted the word "epiphany" from the religious term referring to the revelation of Christ's divinity to Magi. Joyce's definition however refers to a sudden insight into ones self- "an epiphany he meant a sudden ... he had acted as a substitute father. The idea of paralysis takes a physical form straight away as we learn of Father Flynn who is a paralytic Catholic priest and who, after dropping a chalice, a symbol of his faith, becomes spiritually invalid. From his description we...

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