Joyce "dubliners" Literary Ethics Interpretation

Dubliners, a collection of short stories, is James Joyce's early work, who is one of the greatest writers in the twentieth century. The fifteen stories that set in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, has a common theme, that is, the paralyzed moral state pervading in the whole society of Ireland at the end of nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.A new method of literary criticism--Literary Ethical Criticism-- is adopted to interpret Dubliners in the paper, by which we can find how the moral state of the country is recorded at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, concerning the political moral state, religious moral state, and the moral state of love, marriage and family, even personal moral state.At last, this paper draws the conclusion that Joyce's Dubliners preserves the precious materials about Irish history for the offspring, and by the work Joyce appeals to his people to resist England's colonization and to restore to a nation of sound morality and ethics.