Write an essay in which you analyze the sources of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work. ... Throughout the novel, Simon is depicted as a man who seems stuck n a rut, unable to move forward. ... Leaving Ireland by ship, Stephen is crossing the ocean to intellectual freedom as Daedalus crossed the sea to his freedom on mainland Europe. ... The novel ends with a shout out to this "Old Artificer" and a hopeful cry that Stephen's newfound freedom will make him an artificer yet. Summarily, Joyce's use of patriarchal figures and refe...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate