When the conflict is seeing people face to face, they are eager to flee whether they will escape it or whether they have the will to fight it. James Joyce, author of The Desire, is 23 years old, and if you go back in the city of Dublin where you are prosperous once you go back, you will notice the hardships and difficulties of Irish people. In the meantime, he recorded all emotions and anger and compiled it into 15 short stories. Among these stories, Joyce puts his role in situations where they put them in an unstable state and a state of pain.
The role of the Dublin may be a citizen of the capital of Ireland, but many of them wish to escape in other countries and take risks. However, the protagonists of the story actually did not realize this desire. In "Encounter", boys excited at school refusal and wild West are keen to reduce their imagination and Dublin, and Eveline wants Argentine's new life to disappear at the river pier of the city . Xiao Chandler was jealous of his old friend's London journalism work and his trip to a free city like Paris, but his shame of this desire is that he pursues similar goals I could not take action. These stories often offer the opportunity to escape from smaller, more personal restrictions. For example, Evelyn is trying to release housework through marriage. Among the "two gentlemen", Lenehan hopes to escape from the planned life, but can not take action to do so.
One of the strongest motivations leading human beings to art and science is to eliminate the painful and desperate dullness of daily life, freed from the constraints of their own changing desires. Exquisite nature wants to escape from private life to objective perception and thinking world. This negative motive is positive. Human beings try to form a simplified and clear worldview for himself to overcome the world experience by trying to replace it to some extent in this image. In this image and its formation, he set the focus of his emotional life to achieve peace and tranquility that he could not find in a narrow range of personal experience of his rotation.