The rule of British imperialism over Ireland, the Catholic, and the patriarchal ideology are the main factors which oppressed the Irish people of Joyce’s time. Both Dubliners and A Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man show the paralysed life because of those factors and the attempts of escaping from that situation. The former describes the lethargic and paralyzed experiences of various people from different ages and the letter focuses on Stephen and portrays his various experiences of being oppressed and his escaping process from them. In fact, escaping from the paralysis that dominates Dublin means not only ‘escaping’ from the physical ‘space’ of Dublin but also ‘escaping’ from the political, social, cultural, and historical ‘place’ of Dublin. In this paper, I analyzed the aspect of paralysis and the escaping attempts from it, by means of ‘retort,’ ‘revealing of human desires including sexual one’, and ‘falling’ in both texts. Just as Stephen’s escape from Ireland has a important symbolic meaning, Dubliners’ attempt to escape itself is very meaningful for the process of ‘escaping from paralysis’.