Stephen Dedalus as a man for himself

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In Trieste, Joyce reworked an early autobiographical story Stephen Hero, written in 1904-06, and turned it into A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man, which was published, with the help of Ezra Pound, in the USA in 1916. It concerns the education and intellectual development of Stephen Dedalus (who reappears in Ulysses.) Stephen's education is deeply Catholic. He contemplates becoming a Jesuit and entering a seminary but is troubled by sensual desires. One powerful passage in the book is a priest's depiction of hell during a religious retreat, which causes Stephen to experience agonies of guilt and fear.

The material from Stephen Hero was used mainly in the final chapter of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the preceding four chapters presenting stages in Stephen's development from infancy to young manhood. In keeping with Joyce's liking for embedding layers of meaning in his work, many of the images, words, and names in the novel have symbolic significance, making points about the church, and the Irish mentality, which would not be apparent to the casual reader.

At key points in the story Stephen experiences 'epiphanies' (moments of heightened awareness and insight) which help him decide on his course of action. At the end of the novel Stephen rejects the claims of nationality and religion. He adopts the ambition of becoming an artist, and leaves Ireland for Paris in order to live more freely and fully...


Contents :

Introduction 3
1.1 James Joyce - Biography 5
1.2 Stephen Dedalus as a man for himself 7
1.2.1 The myth 7
1.2.2 The alienation and rebellion of Stephen Dedalus 9
1.3 Stephen Dedalus in the context of the Ireland of the time 12
1.4 Stephen Dedalus in “Ulysses” 16
Conclusion 18
References 20