![]() It is everyone for himself in this modern metropolis, so it is not only women who exercise mercantilist calculations in love life, since men utilise love in the exploitation of others as well (cf. The repression of love, which is brought about through the miserable social conditions and the Christian persecution of sexuality, results in a degradation of love life, according to Joyce, that is clearly illustrated by the extensive prostitution in the streets, which the author perceives to be a direct consequence of the religious condemnation of erotic love. Love is under these circumstances degenerated and perverted, partly due to the Christian criminalization of sensual love, partly due to the egoistical and ruthless battle for survival of the individual in the capitalistic bourgeoisie. ![]() Joyce’s Dubliners (1916) embodies a harsh critique of the society in the Irish capital that is paralysed by Catholicism, by the English imperialism, by enormous poverty and social wretchedness. ![]()
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