- The Little Prince
- Icarus
In Greek mythology, Icarus is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Often depicted in art, Icarus and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax.
Icarus' father warns him first of complacency and then of hubris, asking that he fly neither too low nor too high, so the sea's dampness would not clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them. Icarus ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, whereupon the wax in his wings melted and he fell into the sea. This tragic theme of failure at the hands of hubris contains similarities to that of Phaëthon.
The Lament for Icarus by H. J. Draper
- Dubliners/Araby
* "Araby" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners.
*Through first-person narration.
"Araby" touches on a great number of themes:
- coming of age
- the loss of innocence
- the life of the mind versus poverty (both physical and intellectual)
- the consequences of idealization
- the Catholic Church's influence to make Dublin a place of asceticism where desire and sensuality are seen as immoral[2]
- the pain that often comes when one encounters love in reality instead of its elevated form
- paralysis
- These themes build on one another entirely through the thoughts of the young boy, who is portrayed by the first-person narrator, who writes from memory.
- James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde, and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century.
Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilized. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters.
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