Essay: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Acclaimed Irish author, James Joyce, uses conflict as a major tool in enhancing his novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. One of the best illustrations of how conflict is used to give life and color to the novel, is the conflict between Stephen Dedalus's loyalty to the church, and his own need to satisfy his carnal desires, and even more than that, Stephen's need to be an individual, and not conform to the standards of the church and society. The reader watches Stephen grow and change from his first sexual encounter, through his intense guilt and suffering, and finally to the time he relieves himself of his guilt by confessing his misdeed to the kindly priest. Joyce demonstra
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