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Symbolic piece for Eveline by James Joyce. This was my British Literature II final and it got a lot of attention. I was surprised 'cause one student flat out said "Are you an art major 'cause you're really talented." People don't comment on my art often, so it was really nice to be complimented

And sorry I didn't crop this after scanning, I was in a hurry to get to class to present it. I kept fixing the shading and having to rescan and I just didn't think to do it the last scan 'cause I was already late |||OTL

Explanation:

I'm just gonna copy paste what I turned in in case you wanna understand what all the symbols here are and what they mean.

After reading Eveline by James Joyce, I was immediately hit with a thousand different ideas of how to portray the themes I’d picked up throughout the piece. The primary themes I picked up are naivety, desire and indecisiveness.

Eveline is a young woman who has been helping her father take care of their home. She has taken on this role because of her mother’s death. She also has, for reason not disclosed, two children in her care that she must regularly feed and get to school and a job in the market. It seems she had been in these roles for some time and feels that she deserves happiness now. Her answer to finding this happiness is to elope with a sailor she has fallen in love with, Frank, and sail to Buenos Ayres. This is, in my opinion, a very foolish and naïve remedy to her problems. I portrayed her childish naivety by drawing her as a young girl sitting with her legs pulled up against her chest; an action that children typically take on when feeling uncomfortable, vulnerable or upset.

The next theme I noticed was desire. Eveline greatly desires to be happy. She feels that her life is going nowhere because she lives with her abusive father and works a dead-end job with a woman she holds no liking for. This is a normal wish for any human being – to be happy - and Eveline seems to have a strong want for it. She seems to desire love, happiness, adventure and a change of pace from her presently taxing and unsatisfactory life. I symbolized her desire into two orbs of fire (that I envisioned as being blue) that she holds in the palms of her hands with a trouble face.

Eveline, as she is readying herself to board the ship to Buenos Ayres, is constantly going back with herself; asking herself is she is making the right choice. As she is asking herself, she prays to God to guide her and she asks herself if it is too late to simply abandon her voyage with Frank and go back home. She then continues to fervently send prayers to God. As the bell clangs to alert passengers to board, she panics and abandons Frank, looking at him as if he is a complete stranger to her. Her indecisiveness is portrayed by the troubled look she holds on her face as she looks down at the two options (flaming orbs) she holds in her hands.

Description
Symbolic piece for Eveline by James Joyce. This was my British Literature II final and it got a lot of attention. I was surprised 'cause one student flat out said "Are you an art major 'cause you're really talented." People don't comment on my art often, so it was really nice to be complimented

And sorry I didn't crop this after scanning, I was in a hurry to get to class to present it. I kept fixing the shading and having to rescan and I just didn't think to do it the last scan 'cause I was already late |||OTL

Explanation:

I'm just gonna copy paste what I turned in in case you wanna understand what all the symbols here are and what they mean.

After reading Eveline by James Joyce, I was immediately hit with a thousand different ideas of how to portray the themes I’d picked up throughout the piece. The primary themes I picked up are naivety, desire and indecisiveness.

Eveline is a young woman who has been helping her father take care of their home. She has taken on this role because of her mother’s death. She also has, for reason not disclosed, two children in her care that she must regularly feed and get to school and a job in the market. It seems she had been in these roles for some time and feels that she deserves happiness now. Her answer to finding this happiness is to elope with a sailor she has fallen in love with, Frank, and sail to Buenos Ayres. This is, in my opinion, a very foolish and naïve remedy to her problems. I portrayed her childish naivety by drawing her as a young girl sitting with her legs pulled up against her chest; an action that children typically take on when feeling uncomfortable, vulnerable or upset.

The next theme I noticed was desire. Eveline greatly desires to be happy. She feels that her life is going nowhere because she lives with her abusive father and works a dead-end job with a woman she holds no liking for. This is a normal wish for any human being – to be happy - and Eveline seems to have a strong want for it. She seems to desire love, happiness, adventure and a change of pace from her presently taxing and unsatisfactory life. I symbolized her desire into two orbs of fire (that I envisioned as being blue) that she holds in the palms of her hands with a trouble face.

Eveline, as she is readying herself to board the ship to Buenos Ayres, is constantly going back with herself; asking herself is she is making the right choice. As she is asking herself, she prays to God to guide her and she asks herself if it is too late to simply abandon her voyage with Frank and go back home. She then continues to fervently send prayers to God. As the bell clangs to alert passengers to board, she panics and abandons Frank, looking at him as if he is a complete stranger to her. Her indecisiveness is portrayed by the troubled look she holds on her face as she looks down at the two options (flaming orbs) she holds in her hands.