Abstract
The present study focuses on the aspects of modernism found in the novel. The most findable aspects of modernism are individualism, stream of consciousness, exile, and loss of faith. This paper highlights the role of modernism in changing thoughts and ways of living. Furthermore, it describes modernism as the opener of new door for the people determined to get rid out of the boundaries of family, religion and country. Individualism is the centre of modernistic novel around which all aspects revolve. How modern novel gives preference the inner self of an individual to society’s nets and obstacle? This paper discusses in detail the quest of the protagonist of the novel Dedalus who is in search of new ways to see men’s role in the world. Article visualizations:
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The present study focuses on the aspects of modernism found in the novel
The man inside him rejected to follow all imposed rules. His mental exile was due to his nature that never let him accept any law and orders against his desire
Physical exile of Dedalus was another outlook of his mental state
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is possibly the greatest example in the English language of the bildungsroman, a novel tracing the physical, mental, and spiritual growth and education of a young person. The dedication to pure art involves for Stephen, and Joyce, a rejection of the claims on him of duty to family, to the Catholic Church, and to Irish nationalism, either of the political type or of the literary type espoused by the writers of the Irish Renaissance In his characterization of Stephen, Joyce eliminates much of himself: his sense of humor and love of sport, his graduation from the university before leaving Dublin, his desire to attend medical school in France, his deep concern for his mother’s health and affection for his father, and the lifelong liaison he established with Nora Barnacle, who left Ireland with Joyce in 1904. The reader realizes that all of Stephen’s previous epiphanies have failed and recognizes in these final pages the human complexity of Stephen’s important triumph in escaping from the nets of Ireland; the reader, realizes that Stephen’s triumph is complicated by important losses and sacrifices
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