FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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both are mature
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both tend to be cheerful
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both are artists
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both dislike music
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Detailed explanation-1: -The relationship between Bloom and Stephen is worthy of attention. According to the Homeric parallels, Bloom corresponds to Odysseus and Stephen to Telemachus: Bloom and Stephen must be a father and his son.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Ulysses, he sees himself as an Icarus-like figure, one who flew too high and burned his wings in the sun; as “Daedalus, ” he parallels himself with the archetypal flying ace.
Detailed explanation-3: -Stephen defines art as, “the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end” (182). The implications of this statement will be fully examined in the next section, but, for now, the latter part of this definition is especially significant: the esthetic end.
Detailed explanation-4: -Stephen’s struggles tend to center around his parents. His mother, who seems to blame Stephen for refusing to pray at her deathbed, represents not only a mother’s love but also the church and Ireland. Stephen is haunted by his mother’s memory and ghost in the same ways that he is haunted by memories of his early piety.