A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Is Stephen Dedalus Really James Joyce?
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Is Stephen Dedalus Really James
The main debate that all critics had over this novel was whether or
not Stephen Dedalus was, in fact, James Joyce. Maurice Beebe feels that
Joyce, when creating Stephen, used some of his own characteristics but also
tried to ....
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.... stream-of-consciousness. Nowhere in the novel does Joyce
include his own thoughts. The character of Stephen Dedalus is revealed
through only his observations and reactions to the world around him.
This novel is “enclosed in a sustained symbolic pattern.” Stephen
Dedalus is symbolized as “rich and many-faceted.” Critic Elizabeth Drew
states that Stephen is a rebel who withdraws from Ireland, family,
nationality and religion. Stephen rebels in two ways. On one level, his “
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