A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Themes Developed Through Allusions To Classical Mythology
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A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man: Themes Developed Through Allusions to
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of
complex themes developed through frequent allusions to classical mythology. The
myth of Daedalus and Icarus serves as a structuring element in the nove ....
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.... wings of wax and feathers so that he and his son
could escape. When Icarus flew too high -- too near the sun -- in spite of his
father's warnings, his wings melted, and he fell into the sea and drowned. His
more cautious father flew to safety (World Book 3). By using this myth in A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Portrait of the Artist), Joyce succeeds
in giving definitive treatment to an archetype that was well established long
before the twentieth century (Beebe 163).
The Da ....
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