In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce follows the mental and physical maturation of Stephen Dedalus. ... Throughout Portrait, Joyce develops a myriad of patriarchal roles and authority figures which play major roles in the protagonist's development. ... As A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is largely autobiographical, the denouement seen in Stephen's journal entries also holds great significance for Joyce's own struggles in staying loyal to either religion or his own inner artist. ... Joyce, through Stephen, is able to analyze and possibly justify his dec...

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

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