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Religion and Its Effect on Stephen Dedalus
Title: Religion and Its Effect on Stephen Dedalus
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1191 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Religion and Its Effect on Stephen Dedalus
Religion and Its Effect on Stephen Dedalus
Religion is an important and recurring theme in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus both matures and progressively becomes more individualistic as he grows. Though reared in a Catholic school, several key events lead Stephen to throw off the yoke of conformity and choose his own life, the life of an artist.
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…showed last 75 words of 1191 total…an artist. Religion disturbs, shapes, and finally changes Stephen for good. While religion leads to an artistic and lonely life, Stephen can never totally break from his family or need for companionship. At the close of the novel he says, "Old father, old artificer, stand by me now and ever in good stead," belying the fact that no matter how independent Stephen becomes, no man can be an island.
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