Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Introduction |
James Joyce's novel is one of the most difficult in the English Canon. It portrays the development of a young man and an artist growing up in Dublin. It is laced with developmental threads and Irish details. Reading it can be rewarding and difficult. |
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Table of Contents |
The following are the handouts, readings and projects for Portrait. |
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Quick and Dirty: Joyce |
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Preview Questions |
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Eveline |
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Araby |
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Portrait 8-26 |
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Portrait 27-59 |
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Portrait 59-86 |
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Portrait Review Names |
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Portrait 86-106 |
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Portrait 102-144 |
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Portrait 144-173 |
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Portrait 175-195 |
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Portrait 195-223 |
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Portrait 223-end |
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Portrait Review Threads |
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Portrait Review Questions |
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Portrait Reviews |
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Portrait Essay Topics |
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Portrait Close Read |
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Portrait Group Test |
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Portrait Individual Exam |
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Portrait Feedback |
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Quick and Dirty: Joyce
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Introduction |
A Quick and Dirty is a research tactic. Instead of lecturing, I ask you to find this information and present it to the class. You will write a one page brief. A brief is a legal document that briefly states the facts of the case and anything important or relevant. Yours may either be in written form or in an outline. |
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Instructions |
The following are the instructions for doing a Quick and Dirty. |
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Get the assignment from the teacher |
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Figure out everyone's roles in the group |
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Begin Research If you are using.... Then.... Encyclopedias Go to the Index Volume Other books Go to the Index first On-Line search Use your topic as a keyword |
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Someone handwrites the notes |
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When complete, someone edits the notes so that only important details are there |
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Someone then takes the final draft and computerizes it. |
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Topics |
The following are the topics for the Quick and Dirty. |
Celts
Jesuits
Dublin
Parnell/Gladstone/Home Rule
Roman Catholicism in Ireland
Fenians
Preview Questions
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Introduction |
Portrait is a novel that has universal themes brought into the minutiae of one person's life. Although it focuses on one man growing up in the 1900's, it could very well be rewritten to be about you and I. In a small group, answer the following questions. Use one sheet of paper for each question. |
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Questions |
Answer the following questions fully. 1. Was there an event that occurred to you when you were very young that continues to affect you now, even in a little way?
2. Do you have any habits that are exactly like habits your parents have?
How do you feel about having the same habits?
3. Do you think that you could be the best person you could possibly be, while living on Nantucket?
4. What do you suppose Michael Jordan was like in Kindergarten? |
Eveline
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Eveline is a very short story from Joyce's first published book, Dubliners. The story focuses on one woman who is supposed to leave with her fiancι on a trip to Argentina, never to return to her sick father and Ireland. The story can be found in "Modern English Prose and Poetry" on page 118. |
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Questions |
Read the story and then answer the following questions. Discussion: 2, 3, 4 |
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Thought Questions |
Answer the following questions with a few sentences. 1. Look at the very last sentence of the story. What does the word "recognition" suggest about her mind.
What will happen five minutes later?
2. Paralysis is a constant theme in Joyce's work. The paralysis is caused by two equal and opposite forces colliding on a character. What are the forces that collide on Eveline?
3. Frost was said to have a "Lover's Quarrel with the world." How can the same statement be true for Eveline and Ireland?
4. Do you think that Eveline is a realistically drawn woman? Explain.
5. How does the Hero Path fit into this story? If Eveline is the hero, what happens to her? |
Araby
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Araby is also a story from "Dubliners." Where "Eveline" focuses on the pulls of adulthood for a young woman, Araby aims at the more juvenile attraction of a young boy. Araby can be found on page 593 of DWM. |
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Questions |
Answer the following questions fully. Recalling: 1, 2, 4 Interpreting: 5, 6, 7 |
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Thought Questions |
Answer the following questions with a sentence or two. 1. Put the narrator on the hero path. What is the climactic battle? What does he learn? How is his world "better"? 2. Do you think that his enthusiasm early in the story is pitiable or unbelievable? Explain.
3. How do you feel about the boy's parents?
What do you think they were trying to do?
4. Why did Joyce use alliteration in the final sentence?
5. How does Catholicism affect the feelings and the ending of the story?
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Portrait: 8-27
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Introduction |
The very first part of Portrait has Stephen as a very young (2 years?) boy in his parent's house. Although it will make little sense to you now, this first section contains all of the themes and all of the conflicts present in the story. |
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Questions |
Answer the following questions fully. 1. Who does young Stephen like better: Mom or Dad? |
Why?
Is young Stephen visual or does he use all the senses? Show.
Why do they applaud him?
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2. What does Dante have in her "press." |
What do they symbolize?
Who lives next door?
Why must Stephen apologize?
What are the three most important topics mentioned in this little section?
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3. What is the narrator's name? |
Who was Daedelus?
Who was Stephen?
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4. Where is Stephen at school? |
What rule does his father tell him?
Who does Stephen miss more: Mom or Dad?
Explain.
Why is the number 76 important?
What nasty thing did some young boy do to him?
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5. Wordplay is important to Stephen. Where do you see it first?? |
Even as a young boy, Stephen sees things in an unusual way. What are some other examples of this?
Why is this an important detail for the start of a writer's life?
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6. How does the teacher try to get the kids to do the math sums? |
Instead, what does Stephen think about?
Where else has Stephen seen these rose problems?
How might those teams be inappropriate for Irish kids?
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7. What does Stephen do to his ears while he's sitting at the table in the refectory? |
How might that be important?
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8. What joke does Wells pull on Stephen? |
Why is he confused?
How does Stephen's writer mind get engaged?
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9. What colors is the globe painted? |
Where have we seen these colors before?
In the meantime, what has Dante done with her brush?
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10. What has Stephen written in his notebook? |
Why isn't the last word Heaven instead of Universe?
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11. Who does Stephen pray for? |
Why might he go to hell?
What does he dream about?
Why is that important?
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12. Why is Stephen sick? |
What do the other boys ask him not to do?
Why won't he
Is getting sick a reward or a punishment for Stephen? Explain.
What is in the letter that he wants to write?
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13. Why does dying look attractive to Stephen? How did Holden Caulfield have a similar thought? 14. Brother Michael plays wordgames with Stephen? What does he say? |
What bothers Stephen about it?
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15. Who is did at the end of this section? |
What does he see Dante doing?
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16. Where is Dante walking to? |
Where else has water been mentioned?
Why might water be important?
Portrait: 27-59
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Introduction |
Portrait starts to become more understandable at this point, while Stephen is about nine years old. Watch the threads. |
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Answer the following questions fully. 1. Describe Mr. Casey? |
How is Dante upset?
What do the two older men do to tweak Dante?
What Christmas present do you suppose Casey made for Queen Victoria?
Why does his father tell his son to stop laughing?
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2.. How does Stephen feel at the dinner? |
What stylistic tricks does Joyce use to demonstrate this?
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3. What are Mr. Dedalus and Dante arguing about? |
Where did this argument appear in the earlier chapters?
What had the Priest's sermon been about?
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4. Why doesn't Dante want Stephen playing with Eileen? |
What, biblically, is the Tower of Ivory?
What does Stephen think it is?
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5. Dante says, early on, that Stephen will remember this day. What will he remember about it?
6. At Clongowes, some boys are tossed out of school. What are the things the boys think they did wrong? |
What is smugging? (You'll need to guess)
Would any of these offenses be very serious today?
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7. Why is Stephen interested in the phrase "tower of Ivory"? |
What is he associating it with here?
Why is he thinking of Eileen?
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8. How does Stephen deal with his fellows? |
How do his friends deal with him?
How does his relationship with his friends change after the whipping?
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9. What is father Arnall's classroom like? |
Why does he ask the boy to kneel in the center of class?
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10. Why is Stephen hit? |
Who hits him?
Is it fair?
What does Stephen turn and do in response?
Why is he now a hero?
What will Stephen the artist remember of this episode?
Where has this courage been demonstrated at before?
How could it affect him in the future?
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11. How does the chapter end with a writerly twist?
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Portrait: 59-86
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Introduction |
This is a change of pace. This sheet contains various quotes and selections from the text. Why are they important? What do they show about Stephen or his development as an artist? |
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The Uncle Charles Principle |
The Uncle Charles Principle is
Example: When Uncle Charles goes to the outhouse....
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Quotes |
Identify the following quotes fully. 1. "Words that he did not understand he repeated over and over to himself until he knew them by heart."
2. "Madam, I never eat Muscatel grapes."
3. Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that moment.
4. "He felt, too , that he was being enlisted for the fight."
5. "He began to taste the joy of his loneliness."
6. "Yet a voice within him spoke over the noise of his dancing heart, asking him would he take her gift to which he had only to stretch out his hand."
7. "A.M.D.G......"To E_________C___________" |
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8. ..."had come the kiss, which had been withheld by one, was given by both."
9. "You better mind yourself, Father Dolan, or young Dedalus will send you up for twice nine."
10. "So you may as well admit, Heron went on, that we've fairly found you out this time. You can't play the saint on me anymore..."
11. "This fellow has heresy in his essay."
12. "He read his fate in the incidents along the way, pitting himself against some foe ahead of him."
13. "Admit that Byron is no good."
14. "Pride and hope and desire, like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapors...in his mind."
15. 'It is a good odour to breathe. I will go back." |
Portrait: Names Review
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So far we have been dealing with Steven as a small child. If the book ended right now, what effect do you suppose the following people would have on his adult life. |
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Names |
Identify the following names and guess what effect they will have on Stephen in the future. Answer these in a group. |
1. Father Arnall
2. Dante
3. Mr. Dedalus
4. Nasty Roche
5. His mother
6. Schoolboys
7. Mr. Casey
8. Parnell
Portrait: 86-102
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Introduction |
This section, where Stephen accompanies his father to Cork, is one of the great synthesis points of the book. Look to see how Stephen's view of his father changes. |
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Questions |
Answer the following questions fully. 1. Where are Stephen and his father going?
2. What side of his father does Stephen see in the morning?
3. What does Mr. Daedalus do in the Anatomy theater?
4. What word gives Stephen the chills? Why?
5. What instruction does his father give him?
6. Why does his father sob?
7. What does Stephen remember of his childhood? Is it accurate? 8. What does his father quiz him on? Why does his father quiz him?
9. What does the conversation and argument center o, on page 95? Why is that important? What is his father trying to do? |
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10. How does Stephen feel at the end of this section?
Why?
11. Why was Stephen spending so much money?
Where had it come from?
12. What had he wanted to do with the money? |
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13. How does the "Count of Monte Cristo" return to him?
14. Where is he at the end of the section?
Why is he there? |
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Portrait: 102-144
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Introduction |
In this section, I have used far less questions, because I want you to start looking at the novel as a whole, and not in little details. |
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Questions |
Answer these questions in several full sentences. 1. This section begins with Stephen back in the brothels. Stephen is indulging himself. Find three excerpts from that show Stephen indulging in sin.
Is Stephen enjoying himself? Explain.
2. The good priest describes hell in a vicious and cruel light. Find three particularly juicy excerpts and explain their juiciness?
3. On page 137, Stephen dreams of hell. What does it look like (please quote)
How is Stephen's hell particular to him? |
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4. Where does Stephen go for his confession? |
Why not at the normal church?
What odd bits of his past appear in that section?139-144
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5. After confession, Stephen is joyous. Find three excerpts from the text that show how Joyce made his style joyous to echo Stephen. |
Using the hero path, explain why Stephen is joyous?
How is Stephen similar to the narrator in Araby?
Portrait: 144-173
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Some critics consider this section of the novel as the true and legitimate ending. At the end of this section, Stephen gets a vision and seems ready to become the artist. I disagree, but this section does clearly end the childhood of Stephen. |
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Answer the following questions fully. 1. How has Stephen changed? Why is he so ardent? What happens every day? 2. What does the word "mortification" mean? How does he mortify? 3. Joyce uses the word "imperfections" to describe Stephen's sneezing and the like. |
Why is the word very telling about Stephen's mindset?
How about the word "ejaculation" which Stephen uses often. What does that mean in this sense.
Do you think Joyce is deliberately punning?
4. What image does Joyce use for Temptation?
Where else have we seen this image?
What did it seem to connote then?
5. The scene with the director is full of images of Death. Find five or six.
Why is death associated with the director?
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6. Stephen spots a problem with the priests pronunciation of what word?
What part of Stephen is reappearing here?
What else do you suppose that word means, besides an article of a monk's clothing?
7. Why does Joyce use the image of the fire again?
8. Why doesn't Stephen immediately answer "Yes" to the priest's question?
9. When the priest argues with Stephen about joining the priesthood, what does he appeal to?
What sort of priest does Stephen imagine himself to be?
10. Why does Joyce use the word "aloof" to describe Stephen's dream?
11. How does the memory of Clongowes change Stephen's mind?
12. Why won't he become a priest?
How will he fall?
13. What is his family like?
Why do they have to move?
What do they start doing at the table?
Why doesn't Stephen join them?
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Why are those two buildings important?
15. Where has Stephen decided to go?
How does his mother feel about that?
16. Why doesn't Stephen like the Brothers that pass him on the bridge?
How is Stephen being a snob?
17. When his friends call his name, what sort of twist are they adding to it?
18. Stephen feels himself become a bird. Why is that appropriate to him?
How does he define an artist?
19. Where does Stephen go?
Where has this image been used before?
20. Who does Stephen see at the beach?
Describe her carefully.
What does he exclaim?
Why is that an odd statement?
21. What does the fire symbolize now?
22. What does the last image seem to mean?
Portrait: 175-195
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In this section, Stephen has entered the University and is acting very "undergraduate." Hence, he thinks he knows everything. |
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Answer the following questions fully. 1. The first three pages show many links to Steven's past. What are they?
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What new facts about the Daedaluses show up in the first three pages
How does he feel, leaving the parents house?
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2.Who is Davin? |
How does Davin contrast Steven?
What happened to Davin along the road?
How does that relate to the "Count..."
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3. The physics professor (the Dean) is another contrast to Stephen. How?
4. In talking of lamps with the Dean, Steven does a very "Stephen" thing. What?
5. What is the importance of the word "tundish" to their discussion.
6. Quote :"His fellow students rude humor ran like a gust through the cloister of Steven's mind." Why is that significant?
7. What won't Steven sign?
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Portrait: 195-223
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As I did once before, this section is a collection of quotes and excerpts from the section |
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Identify the following quotes fully. Why are they important and how do they build on threads developed earlier in the text? 1. "Will you pay me anything if I sign it."
2. "If we must have a Jesus, let us have a legitimate Jesus."
3. "You're a terrible man, Steve. Always alone."
4. "You're a born sneerer."
5. "This race and this country and this life produced me. I shall express myself as I am." |
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6. "I shall try to fly by those nets."
7. "It amuses me vastly to hear you quoting him time after time like a jolly round fat friar."
8. "Three things are needed for beauty: wholeness, harmony, and radiance."
9. "Your beloved is here."
10. "Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart."
11. "His soul lay amid cool waters."
12. "Are you not weary of your ardent ways..."
13. "While he sang and she listened, or feigned to listen, his heart was at rest." 14. "...the temptress of his villanelle." |
Portrait: 223- End
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Introduction |
The last section is a lot like the first section. It is a confluence of all the threads and all the development used so far. Have patience with it. |
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Answer the following questions fully. 1. Why do you suppose Stephen is so fascinated with Cranly's parents? Is Stephen the product of exhausted loins? Explain. 2. Why does Emma have such a prominent role in the notes? 3. Why would he come back to religion, according to his mother? Do you agree with her? Explain. 4. Whose is the race of clodhoppers? Where in the notes does he contradict this thought? 5. Interpret Stephen's dream.
6. What is the answer to Cranly's riddle? 7. Why does Simon Daedalus like Davin so much?
8. Tara is an Irish heaven, Holyhead is an Irish port. What is the meaning of Steven's line? |
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9. Note the bogwater line. Who are the apple blossoms and what is the pond water?
10. Why does Stephen fear the red eyed old man? What does he stand for. 11. Why does Emma like Stephen all of a sudden?
12. Where does the bird imagery come in again.
13. What does his mother wish for him? What does he wish for himself?
14. Why, if he is forging the uncreated conscience of his race, is he encountering the reality of experience for the millionth time?
15. How are we to take the last line?
Explain its presence. |
Portrait Review: Threads
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Various motifs and symbols extend from the very beginning of the novel through to its end, they just take on different meanings as you go along. |
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Threads |
In a group, for the following trails or ideas, site as much evidence as you can from the entire novel. You will need another sheet of paper. |
1. Birds
2. The problem of a name: Stephen Dedalus
3. The Count of Monte Cristo
4. Ivory
5. Smells
6. Father figures/battles
7. Applause/performance
8. swamps
9. Stubborn belief in self
10. Death/skulls
11. aloofness
12. Emma
Portrait: Review Questions
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Introduction |
Portrait is a novel that requires a backward glance (well, stare really) so that you can see it as a whole. these questions are designed to help you do that. |
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Questions |
In a group, answer these questions fully. 1. What does Joyce suppose is necessary for the development of an artist? What is the most important quality?
2. Are we supposed to think that the villanelle is a finished work by an accomplished artist? Explain.
3. What are the swamps supposed to symbolize? How does that symbolism get carried through the book?
4. In the beginning of the novel, Steven is fairly tied into his mother. later, it appears Mom has slipped away. How has that love of Mom (Clongowes) been transformed?
5. In the end, Stephen says that Art is the creation of the beautiful. Is that why, over the years, he has created art? |
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6. Why does an artist create? What would be Stephen's answer and what would be Joyce's. Prove this
7. Does Joyce mean for Steven to be taken seriously or humorously. Explain.
8. How is the phrase "encounter for the Millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my youth." a definition of an artist?
9. Why does Joyce end with the diary and not with the villanelle?
10. Which of Stephen's friends is the most important to the book? Why?
11. Steven is an artist. What qualities make up this artist? Pick seven or eight. 12. Can Steven be rid of Catholicism? Prove this. |
Portrait: The Reviews
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Portrait was an extremely controversial novel when it came out. Many people loved it, more couldn't understand it, and even a few felt it was sick and evil |
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Read the reviews and the rejection letter, then answer the following questions. |
Why don't some of these people like the book?
Why was the book rejected?
What do all of these reviewers respect about the book?
Of their opinions, which do you agree with? Why?
If you were to write a book review of Portrait, what might you say?
Portrait: Essay Topics
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Introduction |
Essays are very much your own business. Nonetheless, these topics strike me as being ones that will use Joyce well. |
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Essay Topics |
In a clear, thoughtful, well-written essay, answer the following questions. Please use at least one allusion to a literary work we have studied this term. 1. Define Adult. 2. Often we think of one defining, transcendent moment when childhood slips away and adulthood looms. Generally, people think of this moment as an initiation. What were the initiations of the past? What are the initiations of the present? Of the future? 3. Assume that you or your girlfriend is currently pregnant. If there was one skill or trait you would like that child to have, what would it be? Explain both the plusses and minuses of that trait or skill. |
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4. No matter what their intent, sons stray not far from their fathers battles. |
Portrait: Close Read
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Introduction |
Portrait is very much like a careful woven rug. When you examine one area very closely, you see threads, strands, and patterns from the rest of the rug. |
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Close Reading |
Analyze fairly closely a section (between the three dots) of the text. You do not need to use one of the earlier structures. Instead you should look for anything that's tying that section together or what might tie the section into the rest of the novel. Keep in mind the following question. What does Stephen learn over the course of the section? |
Portrait: Group Test
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The following exam is designed to be completed by a group of people working together. Work slowly and carefully. Make sure everybody does some work and has a role. You may use the book. |
Futures
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8. Steven dies of food poisoning. 9. Steven's first novel, Labyrinths Hope, is reviewed in the Dublin Times. The reviewer, Ben Dover, called it a "dense, dark and hopeless story." 10. Steven's publisher sends back his first novel with "suggestions." Steven, furious, fires off an angry letter and refuses to change anything. 11. Steven cannot suggest a name for his young daughter. 12. Steven names his young son, Simon. 13. Steven, after moving, doesn't write to any of his friends. 14. Steven becomes an avid movie watcher. 15. Steven avidly takes up singing. |
Portrait: Individual Exam
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The following exam is designed to test your knowledge of the work and your ability to think creatively. Work carefully, but quickly. |
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Character Matching |
Match the character on the left to the characteristic on the right. i__Dante a. Stephen's father a__Simon Daedelus b. Irish, athletic friend e__Nasty Roche c. Protestant girl from down the street c__Eileen d. Tried to make Steve admit k__Parnell e. Pushed Steve into a ditch j__Uncle Charles f. Stupid friend of Steve that he lectures to h__Father Dolan g. Smart friend of Steve's d__Heron h. Beat Steven for being "lazy" b__Davin i. Stephen's Catholic Aunt g__Cranly j. Former Freedom fighter with bad hands f__Lynch k. Kitty O'Sheas lover |
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Object Identify |
Identify the following objects. Why are they significant? Example: Bird: Stephen tries to imitate one after church. 1. A man from the west of Ireland with red eyes
2. A petition
3. A retreat
4. Broken glasses
5. Clongowes
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6. Count of Monte Cristo 7. Devils in the muck 8. Fenians 9. Foetus 10. Green Brush 11. Moocow 12. Tower of Ivory 13. Tundish 14. Red rose and green rose 15. Birds |
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Long Quotes |
On a separate sheet of paper, explain all you can about the following quotes. Pick 6 1. "Are you not weary of your ardent ways The lure of the fallen seraphim Tell no more of enchanted days ......The rose like glow sent forth its rays of rhyme, ways, days, blaze, praise, raise. It's rays burned up the world, consumed the hearts of men and angels, the rays that rose from her willful heart... 2. -Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not one true friend. -I will take that risk, said Stephen -And not to have any one person, Cranly said, who would be more than a friend, more even than the noblest and truest friend a man ever had." |
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-3.-Give me a kiss His lips would not bend to her. He wanted to be held firmly in her arms, to be caressed slowly, slowly, slowly. In her arms, he felt that he had suddenly become strong and fearless and sure of himself. But his lips would not bend to kiss her. With a sudden movement, she bowed his head and joined her lips to his and he read the meaning of her movements in her crank uplifted eyes. It was too much for him. He closed his eyes, surrendering himself to her...
4. "A flame began to flutter again on Stephen's cheek as he heard in this proud address an echo of his own proud musings. How often had he seen himself as a priest calmly and humbly wielding the awful power of which angels and saints stood in reverence! His soul had loved to muse in secret on this desire. He had seen himself, a young and silentmannered priest, entering a confessional silently, ascending the altar steps, incensing, genuflecting, accomplishing the vague acts of the priesthood which pleased him by reason of there semblance of reality and their distance from it."
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5. -"I go forth to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge, in the smithy of my soul, the uncreated conscience of my race." --Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead."
6."Once upon a time and very good time it was there was a moocow coming down the road and this moocow coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo"
7. "The consciousness of the warm sunny city outside his window and the tender tremors with which his father's voice festooned the strange, sad happy air, drove off all the mists of the night's ill humor from Stephen's brain... -That's much prettier than any of you other come-all-yous. -Do you think so? asked Mr. Dedalus -I like it, said Stephen. -It's a pretty old air, said Mr. Dedalus, twirling the points of his mustache.
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Feedback
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Introduction |
Feedback gives you the opportunity to comment on the work you have just studied and how you studied it. Your answers will affect how I teach Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the future. |
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The Work |
Answer the following questions by marking a number between 1- 10. 10 means you are extremely happy, while 1 means you are heavily bummed. How well did you enjoy studying the play? ___ Compared to other works you have studies, how hard was Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? ___ How important do you feel this play is to the Hero unit? ___ |
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The unit |
Answer the following questions by marking a number between 1- 10. 10 means you are extremely happy, while 1 means you are heavily bummed. How hard were the homeworks? ___ How hard were the quizzes? ___ How hard was the other work? ___ |
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Open ended Questions |
Answer these questions with a short phrase or sentence. Did you use any other tools (video, Cliff notes, oral tapes) to help you understand this play? What could I do to make this novel more interesting or accessible for students? Did you do any of the challenges that relate to this novel? Did you write any essays that relate to this novel? What was your grade on the exam? |
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Other Thoughts |
Do you have other thoughts or concerns about the class or the work? If so, please put them right here. |
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