Coming of Age in Joycean Protagonists in “The Dead”, “Araby”, and “Eveline”

Abstract

as “The Dead”, “Araby” and “Eveline” from James Joyce's modern masterpiece, Dublines(1914). His leading characters undergo a process of psychological transformation for the emotional and social maturation.Making the contemporary Irish history of cultural, spiritual and moral paralysis as a backdrop. His stories make portrayal of the protagonists' gradual evolution from egoism, idealism, self-centeredness, personal, unknown to the new matured being who is more social, real, enlightened and aware of one's social as well as personal responsibilities. Such psychological growth arises at the great price of the painful disillusionment that leads to the state of epiphany. For the analysis of such psychological growth, the research will incorporate the theoretical knowledge of Bildungsroman that, as a literary narrative, focuses on the progressive development towards the formation of the characters' new self.