Religion in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Stream of Consciousness and Epiphanies in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

An omniscient narrative voice guides to the reader of A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man through a continuous flow (many times without following the chronological order of the events)…

The national Irish identity and the Irish Nationalism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The issue of the national Irish identity and the Irish nationalism as an ideological movement that claims to reaffirm this national identity (in many cases as…

Characters in A portrait of the artist as a young man

In the novel of James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man all revolves around the main character: Stephen Dedalus. Settings, events and characters of the novel only exists and take significance from Stephen’s view and they owe…

But, What is Stephen’s mission as an artist?

Stephen’s need to break with his family, church, language and country has a clearly objective: to gain the freedom that he needs for being creative as an artist; he feels the need “to discover the mode of life or of art whereby your spirit could…

Music in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce uses the incorporation of songs and musical allusions to his novels for combining two of his loves: music and literature.

The appearance of the Artist.

Soon after that his instinct had refused his possible religion vocation, Stephen experiences a moment of…

Dublin as a Character

Mapping is a graphical technique that helps to visualise connections between things. It is particularly useful for the comprenhension of novels as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man that, as the other Joyce´s works, emphasizes real locations.