A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man The journey of a mind strained with religion, family, and culture to the portraitof a mind that has achieved emotional, intellectual, and artistic adulthood . . .Under a fathers powerful influence, bullied by peers at school,Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter-ego of Joyce, must grapplethrough the pleasures and pains of adolescence to experience the psychological, sexual, and spiritual discoveries. Setting his mind on a self-imposed exile eventually, he lives a life devoted to the art of writing, casting off all his social, familial, and religious constraints. Rushing you back and forth through sudden disruptions,
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