Tuesday 1 October 2013

At the end of "Eveline" by James Joyce, Eveline has a sudden realization, also known as a/an:

I
think the word you're looking for is "epiphany," but, at the same time, I'm not really
sure's realization can be described using that term. An epiphany is usually a moment of
realizing something transformative in a positive sense; the first epiphany was the revelation of
Christ to the Gentiles, when the Three Wise Men discovered the baby Jesus and recognized the
power of Christ to save all of mankind, not just the Jews. The moment at which Eveline realizes
she does not have to stay in Dublin and can leave with Frank is the kind of moment we would more
usually call an epiphanythe person involved having realized here that they have more power over
their own lives than they thought and that things can be redeemed. The sudden failure of resolve
Eveline has at the end of this story is not so much an epiphany as a...

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