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5BSU - ASoranzo. Comparison between characters.
by ASoranzo - (2017-04-10)
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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

                      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

                       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