5BSU - ASoranzo. Comparison between characters.
by ASoranzo - (2017-04-10)
Up to 5BSU - Virginia Woolf and J. Joyce. Modernist Fiction
COMPARISON BETWEEN EILIS LACEY, EVELINE, MOLLY BLOOM
EILIS:
- Eilis is about 19 or 20 years old.
- She is from Enniscorthy, Ireland
- She is a plain and simple girl
- She is very much a child on the inside
- She stays back in the shadow of her charismatic sister Rose
- She is a static character
- She depends on her sister
- She idealize her sister Rose
- She is insecure
- She is self-conscious
- Unemployed
- She is deprived in the freedom of speaking
- She does not choice her own destiny
- She feels safe indoor
- She moves to America and she tries to change but she cannot
- She suffers from seasickness and homesickness
- Difficult time holding on to her emotions towards something
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EVELINE:
- Eveline is a 19-year-old girl
- She is a dutiful daughter
- She takes care of her family
- She is anxious, timid and scared
- She is a frightened, indecisive young woman poised between her past and her future
- She tries to hold onto good memories of her father
- Eveline wants a new life but is afraid to let go of her past
- She wants to escape
- She wants to find a place where people would treat her with respect
- she is comfortable with the familiar objects
- She feels safe indoor
- She does not make her own decisions
- She wants to change but she cannot
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MOLLY:
- She is Leopold Bloom’s wife
- She is an earthy woman
- She represents the character of Penelope in Omero’s Odysseys
- She is the opposite of the Victorian’s woman
- he is the symbol of the modern woman
- She wants to be independent
- She freely accepting her sexual self
- She is sometimes melancholic
- Molly is an embodiment of archetypal womanhood
- She is the image of woman-temptress
- She is an independent woman
- She controls her husband
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