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Araby
"I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood." An action, one characterized by lack of emotional will power; ‘falling in love' is but several degrees shy of inevitability for all males presented with the realities of life on planet Earth. In his short story "Araby", James Joyce presents the reader with an anonymous young boy, coming to terms with what his existence will be in his native land of Ireland (Dublin). Hormonal and impulsive, the young boy is blind to the deceptive nature of love, and the romantic ideals for which it encapsulates. Further bound by the circumstance of his existence, colonized Dublin of the nineteenth century hardly allows for the religious and moral freedom once envisioned by revolutionary Irishmen, who not only envisioned, but spilt blood to ascertain these freedoms not for themselves, but for all future citizens of Ireland. The young boy of the story is, to an extent, aware......

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