World War I and World War II :: Comparative

World War I and World II are fundamentally the same, right? Well, one can also say they have zero in common. The comparison of the two wars is conceivable, besides it is thought-provoking because they are such(prenominal) widespread notions. This concept applies to Araby, written by James Joyce during WWI, and The Flash, written by Italo Calvino during WWII. In Araby, the sensation falls in chicane with a girl, but love deceives him. In his moment of epiphany, gazing up into the darkness he saw himself as a creature driven and derided by vanity and his eyes fire with anguish and anger (Joyce 1). In The Flash, the protagonist suddenly grasps a frankness and in his moment of epiphany he stopped, blinked He understood nothing. Nothing, nothing about anything. He didnt visualise the reasons for things or for people, it was all senseless, absurd (Calvino 1). Comparing the epiphanies of the two distinct nearsighted stories reveals a relationship between their similarities and differences through theme, symbolism and setting. First and foremost, comparison the themes of both epiphanies reveal they can simultaneously be similar and different. An grand common theme in both epiphanies is facing reality. In Araby, the protagonist realizes his stay was useless (Joyce 6) since the young lady only spoke to him out of a sense of duty (Joyce 6). Likewise, in The Flash, the protagonist realizes he accepted everything trade lights, cars, posters, uniforms, monuments, things completely detached from any sense of the world, accepted them as if thither some necessity, some chain of cause and effect that bound them in concert (Calvino 1). Both characters face the reality and randomness of the world. Even so, severally epiphany implies each protagonist faces a different sort of reality. The protagonist of Araby faces the reality of love and sees himself as a creature driven and derived by vanity (Joyce 6). On the other(a) hand, the protagonist of The Fla sh faces the reality of existence and hopes he shall grasp that other knowledge (Calvino 2). Therefore, reviewing the theme similar to both epiphanies leads to discovering different themes as well.Conversely, feel at the differences in the symbolism of each epiphany hints at a same aspect of symbolism. The epiphany of Araby symbolizes the protagonist escaping into a dark world when he enters the stop number part of the hall which was now completely dark (Joyce 6).