Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an autobiographical novel of James Joyce. The novel Stephen Hero was originally written as Joyce's autobiography, which was reworked from the autobiographical piece entitled "Portrait of the Artist." ... Education plays a large role in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ... The theme of a bird in flight is prominent throughout Portrait of the Artist. ... Virgil relates to both The Inferno, and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ...

• Word Count: 1464
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an autobiographical novel of James Joyce. The novel Stephen Hero was originally written as Joyce's autobiography, which was reworked from the autobiographical piece entitled "Portrait of the Artist." ... Education plays a large role in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ... The theme of a bird in flight is prominent throughout Portrait of the Artist. ... Virgil relates to both The Inferno, and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ...

• Word Count: 1521
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Artists such as Stephen Dedalus from James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," and Lily Briscoe from Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse," are both effected by how society interprets their art. ... Stephen states "I do not fear to be aloneAnd I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake" (Joyce 218). ... She is very skeptical of herself and her talents as an artist. ... She never aspires to be the voice for women artists and she somehow seems content with that. ... In the closing lines of the novel, when Stephen is leaving to become an artist, he ref...

• Word Count: 1274
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

As shown in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, "The New Dress- by Virginia Woolf, and even my own life, characters' identities are constantly subject to the push and pull of external social influences and the individual's own decisions to re-examine or even reject these influences in order to discover his/her true identity and sense of self. In James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus, the main character, is growing up in late nineteenth-century Ireland. ... Throughout the entire preceding portion of Portrait, allusions are made t...

• Word Count: 2013
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Nowhere is this more evident than in James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man where being punished by several different people severely affects the growth and development of the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus. ... Stephen has fully rejected the church and has become the artist that he wants to be. ... The churches main goal was to turn him into a priest and instead he renounced the church and the order and became an artist instead. ...

• Word Count: 1614
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School