The exploration of human beings' mental world remains a common theme of twentieth century western novels. In his story"Araby", James Joyce describes a boy's painful mental process of how he quests fo...The exploration of human beings' mental world remains a common theme of twentieth century western novels. In his story"Araby", James Joyce describes a boy's painful mental process of how he quests for nebulous and romantic love and how he becomes disillusioned in the end based on the archetype of a knight's quest for the holy grail by using the technique of contrast of bright and dark.展开更多
文摘The exploration of human beings' mental world remains a common theme of twentieth century western novels. In his story"Araby", James Joyce describes a boy's painful mental process of how he quests for nebulous and romantic love and how he becomes disillusioned in the end based on the archetype of a knight's quest for the holy grail by using the technique of contrast of bright and dark.