ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce’s literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographic novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and an important character in Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses.

Detailed explanation-2: -An intelligent, sensitive, anxious, and ill-tempered boy growing up in an increasingly impoverished Catholic household in Dublin. In his long student years, Stephen passes through many discrete stages.

Detailed explanation-3: -Simon Dedalus is the father of Stephen, the protagonist in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. As a father, Simon is aloof, but he always emphasizes to Stephen the importance of choosing your friends wisely.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stephen’s theory of Hamlet asserts that Shakespeare is, at the same time, Father (of Hamnet), Son (of his recently deceased father), and Ghost (Shakespeare plays the Ghost at the Globe theater).