Study of "Stephen Dedalus ", the main protagonist of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Fatemeh Azizmohammadi,Sepide Kamarzade

doi:10.7575/aiac.alls.v.5n.2p.162

Abstract

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, written in 1916, is an authobiography and the first novel of the great Irish writer, James Joyce. It's written in Modernist style. So it can be contain of some category of realism, naturalism, and Marxism which aroused in mid-to late nineteenth century. But it mostly included realistic style because of the begining date of this literary school. By reading all works of James Joyce is maybe committing ownself to a outstanding trickary world of chaosmos (Finnegans Wake, p. 118.21), which stands for poetic mystery that few writers have acheived. In this study attempted is made to survey the main Protagonist in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus, and its relationship to the author.

Highlights

James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882, became one of the most important writers that we've ever known
James Joyce's whole education from age six to nine was at Clongowes Wood College, and from age eleven to the age sixteen at Belvedere College in Dublin was Catholic. As he studied in Clongowes Wood College, in his early youth, he was very religious, but in a year to his graduation from Belvedere he began to reject his Catholic faith and that's why he saw as involving in rebellion and exile
After all the problems that happens to him, Joyce, by writing a series of stories which engraving with remarkable lucidity aspects of Dublin life, began his job as a successful writer

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Introduction

James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882, became one of the most important writers that we've ever known. Because of the restricted atmosphere, in 1904 at age twentytwo, he left his family and the Roman Catholic Church of Dublin, which he was interested during his childhood, for becoming a great writer to Europe Thereafter he remained away from his nation and family, with brief exceptions, for the rest of his life. By looking at his style of writing, we encounter that most of Joyce's work contain the style known as stream of consciousness, which leads reader to a certain character's thoughts and insights as reader visualize. In most of his works, including Ulysses, the greatest novel of nineteenth century, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, an autobiographical novel, compulsion with above mentioned mythology can be found

Summary of The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Stephen Dedalus

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