A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man Religion As Repressi
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
Like his protagonist, James Joyce was an Irish Catholic. He was also sent to Clongowes Wood College to board and study as a young
boy. In effect the story is in part an autobiography of Joyce's own life up to the age of twenty or so (Kershner 6). In h ....
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.... discovers an identity of his own.
As a young boy, religion is crucial to Stephen's life. Stephen was reared in a strict Catholic family. The demand for compliance placed on Stephen shapes his life early at Clongowes, a preparatory school run by the Jesuit order. Even as he is adhering to the principles of his Catholic school upbringing, he becomes increasingly disillusioned. Even though Joyce spoke warmly of his own experiences at Clongowes he portrays a different, almost o ....
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