James Joyces Araby And The Yellow Wallpaper - 1985 Words

A large component of the psychoanalytical theory is the three-part psyche which breaks the brain into essentially three parts; The ego, the superego, and the id. The id is the largest part and instinctive component of the personality which seeks pleasure and its primary focus are wants and desires. The superego is the practical component which is more set on the morals and values set by others they know, meanwhile, the ego is the weak mediator of the two. The strength of the id is an overbearing topic in Araby by James Joyce and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The 1914 short story, Araby, follows a young boy going through his preteen years with a growing obsession for Mangan’s sister. Despite the fact that she is much†¦show more content†¦So this infatuation continues to get stronger as he explains his interactions with her; â€Å"When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. I ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. I kept her bro wn figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her† (Joyce, 1). This is clearly an activity that he has done more than once and by himself, he spends all his time trying to be near Mangan s older sister, which isolates him more and makes him seem to want her more and more. Where the boy from Araby’s loneliness drives him to find love, Else in The Yellow Wallpaper, attempts to escape her room and mind increasingly more vigorously as she becomes more isolated. As Else herself is the narrator of the story, the chronology of her mental illness taking hold of her through the story is evident. By the very end, her mind has taken her to a completely different world in the last scene; â€Å"I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper† (Gilman, 13). In her desperation and loneliness, Else rips off the ugly wallpaper as she now imagines that that is what is trapping her and feels defiant in what she feels is a victory, whether in reality it is or not. For each character in Araby and The Yellow Wallpaper, their id is strong as their actions follow it diligently because of the environment of desolation. To continue, theShow MoreRelatedANALIZ TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS28843 Words   |  116 Pageshe is with himself – or about where the major crisis, or turning point of the narrative actually occurs. Nor is there any special reason that the crisis should occur at or near the middle of the plot. It can, in fact, occur at any moment. In James Joyce’s â€Å"Araby† and in a number of the other companion stories in â€Å"Dubliners† the crisis – in the form of a sudden illumination that Joyce called an epiphany – occurs at the very end of the story, and the falling action and the resolution are dispensed with