Irish Social Ills in Joyce’s “The Sisters” and “The Dead”

Abstract

The 19th and 20th centuries witnessed infinite and many rapid changes in politics, art, society, literature and many other fields. It is the outward distress that shaped new norms and ways of thinking. In the field of literature, both Naturalism and Modernism were two main literary movements which are characterised by putting aside the traditional literary style and embracing new techniques that match the non-stop change of the world. This new movements addressed the broken world which is full of pessimism and which is falling apart.......